ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,703, issued on June 30, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Microscopy system and method for generating a virtually stained image" was invented by Alexander Freytag (Erfurt, Germany), Matthias Eibl (Jena, Germany), Christian Kungel (Penzberg, Germany), Anselm Brachmann (Jena, Germany), Daniel Haase (Zoellnitz, Germany) and Manuel Amthor (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for generating an image processing model that calculates a virtually stained image from a microscope image comprises a training of the image processing model using training data comprising at least: mi...