ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,706, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Optical image processing method, machine learning method, trained model, machine learning preprocessing method, optical image processing module, optical image processing program, and optical image processing system" was invented by Satoshi Tsuchiya (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Tatsuya Onishi (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical image processing module includes an image acquisition unit that acquires an optical image obtained by capturing an image of light from a target object, a noise map generation unit that derives a standard devi...