US Patent Issued to NEC, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY on Nov. 3 for "Slide number estimation apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,192, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY (Sapporo, Japan).

"Slide number estimation apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Ayaka Amakawa (Tokyo), Maki Sano (Tokyo), Kanako Hatanaka (Hokkaido, Japan) and Yutaka Hatanaka (Hokkaido, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slide number estimation apparatus (2000) acquires a slide image (30). The slide image (30) an image of a specimen slide (20) obtained from a tissue piece (10) of a subject. The slide number estimation apparatus (2000) estimates the number of tumor cell...