ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,340, issued on June 2, was assigned to THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC. (Cambridge, Mass.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Multi-scale spatial transcriptomics analysis" was invented by Xiao Wang (Cambridge, Mass.), Jia Liu (Cambridge, Mass.) and Yichun He (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for identifying cells in an image. An apparatus for identifying cells in an image is also provided by the present disclosure. Further provided herein is a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for perfor...