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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2021
Applicant:
Thrive Bioscience, Inc., Wakefield, MA (US);
Inventors:
Jeff Goldman, Wakefield, MA (US);
Alan Blanchard, Wakefield, MA (US);
Assignee:
Thrive Bioscience, Inc., Wakefield, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 15/1434 (2024.01); C12M 1/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 15/1434 (2013.01); C12M 41/36 (2013.01); G01N 2015/1452 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for pre-scanning a transparent cell culture plate with a plurality of wells to improve focus using a plurality of z-axis images and a method for focusing an optical system on a transparent cell culture plate by performing a Fourier transform on image data at different focus distance steps to reveal a pattern and using the pattern at each step to determine the focus distance.