ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,103, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cell life-and-death determination method, cell life-and-death determination device, and cell life-and-death determination system" was invented by Shota Kamei (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Morimoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomoyuki Shimoda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a cell life-and-death determination method, a cell life-and-death determination device, and a cell life-and-death determination system. The cell life-and-death determination method includes: acquiring images of a cell captured in a plurality of focal planes including an in-focus pl...