ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,678, issued on July 21, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Synthetic generation of immunohistochemical special stains" was invented by Frederik Aidt (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a computer implemented method for training a virtual stainer machine learning model, comprising: creating an imaging multi-record training dataset, wherein a record comprises: a first image of a sample of tissue of a subject stained with a removable stain, and a ground truth indicated by a second image of the sample of tissue of the subject stained with a permanent stain, and training a vi...