ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,889, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Cell image analysis system, cell image analysis apparatus and cell image analysis method" was invented by Shin Kawamata (Kobe, Japan), Takako Yamamoto (Kobe, Japan), Takashi Suzuki (Kyoto, Japan), Ryuji Sawada (Kyoto, Japan) and Shuhei Yamamoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell image analysis system (200) according to this invention includes a cell image acquirer (11) configured to acquire a cell image (30) including cells (90); a cell area acquirer (12) configured to acquire cell areas (91) from the cell image; a pseudopodium area acquirer (1...