ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,216, issued on June 2, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, biological sample observation system, and image generation method" was invented by Noe Kaneko (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirokazu Tatsuta (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhiro Nakagawa (Saitama, Japan), Sakiko Yasukawa (Tokyo) and Noriyuki Kishii (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a simulated image generation unit (131a) that generates a simulated image by superimposing a non-stained image including an autofluorescence component and a dye tile image in wh...