US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP, SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Sept. 23 for "Image-based unsupervised multi-model cell clustering" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,810, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (New York).

"Image-based unsupervised multi-model cell clustering" was invented by Su-Hui Chiang (San Jose, Calif.) and Ming-Chang Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A framework that includes one or more feature extractors (models) and a cluster component for clustering is described herein. The framework supports (1) offline image-based unsupervised clustering that replaces time-consuming manual gating; (2) online image-based single cell sorting. During training, one or multiple cell image datasets with or without grou...