US Patent Issued to Vieworks on March 31 for "Method for determining slope of slide in slide scanning device, method for controlling slide scanning device and slide scanning device using the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,123, issued on March 31, was assigned to Vieworks Co. Ltd. (Anyang-si, South Korea).

"Method for determining slope of slide in slide scanning device, method for controlling slide scanning device and slide scanning device using the same" was invented by Byeongyeon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yeonhee Park (Namyangju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment relates to a method for determining a slope of a slide in a slide scanning device, which includes: (a) obtaining, by a scanning control unit of a slide scanning device, z-stack images for at least a partial area of a sample of a slide; (b) extracting, by the ...