US Patent Issued to Amgen on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods for facilitating clone selection" (California, Illinois, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,992, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for facilitating clone selection" was invented by Yu Yuan (Chicago), Graham F. Milne (Ventura, Calif.), Tony Y. Wang (League City, Texas), Kim H. Le (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Glenn Tan (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for facilitating clone selection includes generating time-sequence images of a well containing a medium, including a first image and a later, second image. The method also includes detecting, by one or more processors analyzing the first image, one or more candidate objects depicted in the fir...