US Patent Issued to AstraZeneca on Aug. 11 for "Automated assessment of wound tissue" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,663, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to AstraZeneca AB (Sodertalje, Sweden).

"Automated assessment of wound tissue" was invented by Yinhai Wang (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Adrian Mark Freeman (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of assessing a wound in a subject is provided. The method comprises obtaining one or more optical coherence tomography images of the wound and analysing the one or more optical coherence tomography images using a deep learning model that has been trained to classify pixels in an optical coherence tomography image of a wound between a plurality of classes comprising a plurality ...