US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on April 8 for "Systems and methods for the early detection and classification of live microorganisms using time-lapse coherent imaging and deep learning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,068, issued on April 8, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for the early detection and classification of live microorganisms using time-lapse coherent imaging and deep learning" was invented by Aydogan Ozcan (Los Angeles), Yair Rivenson (Los Angeles), Hongda Wang (Los Angeles), Hatice Ceylan Koydemir (Los Angeles) and Yunzhe Qiu (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for the detection and classification of live microorganisms in a sample includes a light source and an incubator holding one or more sample-containing growth plates. A translation stage moves ...