US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Sept. 8 for "System and method for selecting colonies" (Maryland, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,363, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"System and method for selecting colonies" was invented by Strett Roger Nicolson (Owings Mills, Md.), Mark Sakowski (Cockeysville, Md.), Paul Fieni (Sparks, Md.), Mark Larsen (Sparks, Md.), Keri Lynne Jones Aman (Lutherville, Md.), Amy Alcott Llanso (Henderson, Nev.) and Harry Yuheng Chou (Cockeysville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for selecting colony locations. Selecting colony locations can include determine a location of a selection tool on a culture plate image, determining a location of a potential sou...