ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,522, issued on July 28, was assigned to The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Systems and methods of correcting batch effect in biological images" was invented by Chi Kiu Michelle Lo (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Man Dik Dickson Siu (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Kin Man Kevin Tsia (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for the rectification of batch-induced distortions and the extraction of phenotypic attributes from biological images is presented. This system encompasses a deep-learning generative adversarial network model, expertly tailored to converse with and modify the contrast of input images, resul...