US Patent Issued to Thrive Bioscience on Nov. 25 for "Plaque detection method for imaging of cells" (Oregon, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,098, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Thrive Bioscience Inc. (Beverly, Mass.).

"Plaque detection method for imaging of cells" was invented by Kenneth Chapman (Godley, Texas) and Frank Evans (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plaque detection method and apparatus wherein at least one processor is programmed to receive above focus images to detect the presence of live cells without detecting the lysed cell materials, receive below focus images wherein virtual dark regions exist which are similar to cell shadows as seeds in a segmentation process and use contours around each resulting shape to obtain a subset that are mo...