US Patent Issued to SCREEN Holdings, Cyfuse Biomedical on Sept. 1 for "Fibrosis evaluation method for biological sample" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,256, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SCREEN Holdings Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan) and Cyfuse Biomedical K.K. (Tokyo).

"Fibrosis evaluation method for biological sample" was invented by Ryo Hasebe (Kyoto, Japan), Toshihiko Maekawa (Tokyo) and Ayu Inoue (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an evaluation method, first, a biological sample is taken an image, and an image in which intensity values are distributed is acquired. After that, a localization region corresponding to a fibrotic region is extracted from the taken image. At that time, a region of which intensity value satisfies a predetermined requirement in the taken i...