ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,685, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).

"Portable machine learning taxa detection" was invented by Robert D. Currier (Beverly Hills, Fla.) and Barbara A. Kirkpatrick (Sarasota, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Portable imaging and taxa classification systems and methods are described. One such method comprises accessing at least one microscopic image captured using an imaging device and a microscope from memory and executing a machine learning (ML) routine on the at least one computing device using a single image frame of the at least one microscopic image as an input to id...