US Patent Issued to Sartorius BioAnalytical Instruments on Nov. 3 for "Image processing and segmentation of sets of z-stacked images of three-dimensional biological samples" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,245, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sartorius BioAnalytical Instruments Inc. (Bohemia, N.Y.).

"Image processing and segmentation of sets of z-stacked images of three-dimensional biological samples" was invented by Timothy Jackson (Bohemia, N.Y.) and Nevine Holtz (Bohemia, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided to project depth-spanning stacks of limited depth-of-field images of a sample into a single image of the sample that can provide in-focus image information about three-dimensional contents of the image. These methods include applying filters to the stacks of images in order to identify pixels within each ima...