ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,539, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cell body segmentation using machine learning" was invented by Sumit Kumar Jha (Bangalore, India), Dan Xie (Pleasanton, Calif.), Arina Nikitina (Samara, Russia), Debjit Ray (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yun-Ching Chang (San Jose, Calif.) and Suraj Rengarajan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of performing deep cell body segmentation on a biological sample is provided. The method includes receiving a first and a second stained image. The first image is processed using a trained machine learned model that outputs locations...