US Patent Issued to X-Zell on June 10 for "Systems and methods for identifying rare cells" (Thai Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,386, issued on June 10, was assigned to X-Zell Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for identifying rare cells" was invented by Sebastian Chakrit Punyaratabandhu Bhakdi (Bangkok).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are compositions and methods of fixing and staining rare cells. Further, disclosed herein are methods of identifying circulating tumor cells (CTC). In some embodiments, the method includes: imaging a cell sample to identify a cell of interest; determining a first pixel intensity of a stained nuclear area; determining a second pixel intensity of a background area; calculating a ploidy status of the cell ...