US Patent Issued to NIKON on May 5 for "Method of analyzing neurons, device for analyzing neurons, and computer program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,829, issued on May 5, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of analyzing neurons, device for analyzing neurons, and computer program" was invented by Toru Ichihashi (Yokohama, Japan), Takahiko Yoshida (Tokyo) and Moeka Nobuta (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of analyzing neurons includes: identifying a cell region by identifying a region of a neurite or a region of a cell body of a neuron on the basis of time-series images obtained by imaging the neuron in time series; detecting aggregates by imaging, in time series, first fluorescent protein tagged to specific protein expressed in the neuron and detectin...