US Patent Issued to SCREEN HOLDINGS on Oct. 7 for "Image processing method, fertilized egg evaluation method and recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,395, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SCREEN HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Image processing method, fertilized egg evaluation method and recording medium" was invented by Ryo Hasebe (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method according to the present invention includes: obtaining three-dimensional image data representing a three-dimensional image of a fertilized egg in a cleavage stage obtained by imaging the fertilized egg by optical coherence tomography; extracting a blastomere region corresponding to an individual blastomere in the three-dimensional image for each blastomere based on the three-dime...