ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,339, issued on June 9.

"Machine learning classification of retinal atrophy in OCT scans" was invented by Leo Joskowicz (Jerusalem), Adi Szeskin (Jerusalem), Roei Yehuda (Jerusalem), Jaime Levy (Bet Shemesh, Israel) and Or Shmueli (Holon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: receiving (i) a first OCT scan, and (ii) a second, subsequent, OCT scan, each comprising one or more two-dimensional (2D) scan images of an eye of a subject; receiving a first and second retinal images of the eye of the subject, associated with the first and second OCT scans; matching corresponding first and second pixel column patches, each c...