ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,406, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to V5MED INC. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"System and method for cell statistics based on image recognition" was invented by Linda Siana (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Guang-Hao Suen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Liang-Wei Sheu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chien-Ting Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for cell statistics based on image recognition is disclosed. A microscope captures the full image of a microslide, selects an interest region from the full image, and divides the region into sub-regions. A camera scans and transits the sub-regions to a host. The host performs image recognition on th...