Patents by Inventor Lorette Munoz

Lorette Munoz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Bio-imaging method
    Patent number: 9576181
    Abstract: A method for defining an isolation area around an object of interest in a cell culture vessel, the method comprising the steps of: —obtaining one or more images of the cell culture vessel using one or more of a plurality of illumination sources, each illumination source being capable of illuminating the vessel from a different direction; —selecting an image or combination of images for further processing; —applying a circular object detection transformation to identify one or more objects of interest being substantially circular objects in the cell culture vessel, which circular objects of interest are representative of isolated colonies in the cell culture vessel and determining the center of an object of interest; —applying a binarizing step to obtain a binarized image of the object of interest and other objects, wherein the center of the binarized image corresponds to the center of the object of interest; —iteratively forming concentric circles with increasing radius, wherein the concentric circles are cen
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignees: BioMerieux, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Loréne Allano, Guillaume Sutra, Lorette Munoz, Corine Fulchiron, Dominique Decaux, Frédéric Pinston
  • BIO-IMAGING METHOD
    Publication number: 20150278575
    Abstract: A method for defining an isolation area around an object of interest in a cell culture vessel, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining one or more images of the cell culture vessel using one or more of a plurality of illumination sources, each illumination source being capable of illuminating the vessel from a different direction; selecting an image or combination of images for further processing; applying a circular object detection transformation to identify one or more objects of interest being substantially circular objects in the cell culture vessel, which circular objects of interest are representative of isolated colonies in the cell culture vessel and determining the center of an object of interest; applying a binarizing step to obtain a binarized image of the object of interest and other objects, wherein the center of the binarized image corresponds to the center of the object of interest; iteratively forming concentric circles with increasing radius, wherein the concentric circles are centered
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Loréne Allano, Guillaume Sutra, Lorette Munoz, Corine Fulchiron, Dominique Decaux, Frédéric Pinston