ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,520, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Antimicrobial susceptibility testing with large-volume light scattering imaging and deep learning video microscopy" was invented by Nongjian Tao (Fountain Hills, Ariz.), Shaopeng Wang (Chandler, Ariz.), Hui Yu (Tempe, Ariz.) and Shelley Haydel (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for deep learning video microscopy-based antimicrobial susceptibility testing of a bacterial strain in a sample by acquiring image sequences of individual bacterial cells of the bacterial strain in a subject sample before...