US Patent Issued to KEYENCE on Aug. 11 for "Colony counting device, and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,909, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to KEYENCE Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Colony counting device, and control method" was invented by Shingo Matsumura (Osaka, Japan), Suguru Sekiya (Osaka, Japan) and Kenta To (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Counting accuracy of colonies is improved. A colony counting device captures a test individual to generate an image of the test individual, registers the image of the test individual in an initial state as a reference image, identifies a residue included in the reference image and identifies a position of the residue in a test image corresponding to the residue included in the reference ...