ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,080, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Microscopic image processing method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by De Cai (Shenzhen, China) and Xiao Han (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a microscopic image processing method performed by a computer device. The method includes: extracting an instance image of a target object from a microscopic image; obtaining skeleton form information of the target object from the instance image, the skeleton form information representing a skeleton form of the target object; perfor...