US Patent Issued to NEOGEN FOOD SAFETY US HOLDCO on March 31 for "Compensation of intensity variances in images used for colony enumeration" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,090, issued on March 31, was assigned to NEOGEN FOOD SAFETY US HOLDCO Corp. (Lansing, Mich.).

"Compensation of intensity variances in images used for colony enumeration" was invented by Thanh Q. Tran (Blaine, Minn.), Hugh E. Watson (Prior Lake, Minn.), Jitesh N. Joshi (Gujarat, India) and Rinkeshkumar B. Patel (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein involve determining an area of interest on a growth media. An overall brightness control value for a plurality of illumination sources configured to illuminate the growth media is calculated. The overall brightness control value generating at least on...