US Patent Issued to VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS on May 6 for "Automatic assay assessment and normalization for image processing" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,822, issued on May 6, was assigned to VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Automatic assay assessment and normalization for image processing" was invented by Yao Nie (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Maria V. Sainz De Cea (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for of assessing stain titer levels. An exemplary method includes generating a set of field of views for the image or the region of the image, selecting field of views from the set of field of views that meet predefined criteria, creating a series of patches within each of the selected field of views, retaining patches from the series o...