ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,364, issued on May 12, was assigned to Advanced Cell Diagnostics Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Materials and methods related to image processing" was invented by Ching-Wei Chang (Newark, Calif.), Xiao-Jun Ma (Newark, Calif.), Han Lu (Newark, Calif.), Bing-Qing Zhang (Newark, Calif.), HaYeun Ji (Newark, Calif.) and Ming Yu (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides materials and methods related to image processing. In particular, the present disclosure provides methods for enhancing target signal detection using imaging processing analysis that identifies and removes non-specific background signals. The im...