ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,293, issued on June 2, was assigned to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc..

"Methods and systems for particle classification" was invented by Aslam Nagarkatti (Skillman, N.J.), Shiva Naveen Ravi (Dublin, Calif.), Kaushik Krishna Pradeep (Montvale, N.J.), Qingyan Hu (Millwood, N.Y.), Marco Hernandez (New York) and Robert McCowan (Katonah, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for particle classification are provided herein. A plurality of images of fluids/samples of pharmaceutical products, drugs, medicines, etc., may be analyzed using one or more machine learning models. The one or more machine learning models may compris...