US Patent Issued to Tomocube on July 14 for "Identifying microorganisms using three-dimensional quantitative phase imaging" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,213, issued on July 14, was assigned to Tomocube Inc. (South Korea).

"Identifying microorganisms using three-dimensional quantitative phase imaging" was invented by Kihyun Hong (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun-Seok Min (Daejeon, South Korea), YongKeun Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Geon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Youngju Jo (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying the predicted type of one or more microorganisms. In one aspect, a system comprises a phase-contrast microscope and a microorganism classification sy...