US Patent Issued to VITADX INTERNATIONAL, INSTITUT PASTEUR, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE on April 22 for "Multi-channel extended depth-of-field method for automated digital cytology" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,045, issued on April 22, was assigned to VITADX INTERNATIONAL (Rennes, France), INSTITUT PASTEUR (Paris) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris).

"Multi-channel extended depth-of-field method for automated digital cytology" was invented by Alexandre Bouyssoux (Paris), Riadh Fezzani (Montrouge, France) and Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin (Sceaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a color-faithful extended-depth-of-field (EDF) image from a color volume of 2D images acquired at different focal depths using a microscope. The method involves: generating a grayscale volume; applying invertible color-...