ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,624, issued on March 18, was assigned to The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong).

"Artificial intelligence enabled reagent-free imaging hematology analyzer" was invented by Renjie Zhou (Hong Kong), Xin Shu (Hong Kong) and Rishikesh Pandey (Unionville, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject invention pertains to methods and systems for classifying leukocytes using artificial intelligence called AIRFIHA (artificial-intelligence enabled reagent-free imaging hematology analyzer) that can accurately classify subpopulations of leukocytes in a label-free manner. AIRFIHA can not only subtype lymphocytes into B and T cell b...