ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,976, issued on May 19, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Method for digitally staining cells" was invented by Thomas Engel (Aalen, Germany) and Gaby Marquardt (Hausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for digitally staining a cell and/or a medical preparation cell comprises: determining three-dimensional information of a cell and/or of a medical preparation using an analyzer for analyzing a medical sample, the analyzer comprising an apparatus for determining the three-dimensional information of the cell and/or of the medical preparation; digitally staining the cell and/or the medica...