ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,655, issued on May 20, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Cell image analysis method and cell image analysis device" was invented by Ayako Akazawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shape of a cell is favorably observed in a non-invasive manner. One aspect of a cell analysis device according to the present invention includes: holographic microscopy, an image generation unit configured to generate a phase image of a cell based on hologram data acquired by observing the cell with the holographic microscopy, a first machine learning model storage unit configured to store a cell area machine learning model genera...