US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Microscopy on March 3 for "Microscopy system and method for instance segmentation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,151, issued on March 3, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Microscopy system and method for instance segmentation" was invented by Manuel Amthor (Jena, Germany) and Daniel Haase (Zoellnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for instance segmentation of at least one microscope image showing a plurality of objects, comprising: calculating positions of object centers of the objects in the microscope image; determining which image areas of the microscope image are covered by the objects; calculating Voronoi regions using the object centers as Voronoi sites; and determining an i...