ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,899, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH (Wetzlar, Germany).

"Method for analyzing neuronal patterns in Golgi-stained images" was invented by Won Yung Choi (Wetzlar, Germany), Hung-Yu Chang (Wetzlar, Germany), Chi-Chou Huang (Wetzlar, Germany), Hoyin Lai (Wetzlar, Germany), Sean McElroy (Wetzlar, Germany) and Luciano Andre Guerreiro Lucas (Wetzlar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first aspect of this disclosure is related to a computer-implemented method for identifying neuronal patterns in an image, comprising the steps: obtaining a first data set with Golgi-stained neuronal structures; based on...