US Patent Issued to Canfield Scientific on Sept. 15 for "Acne severity grading methods and apparatuses" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,867, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Canfield Scientific Inc. (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Acne severity grading methods and apparatuses" was invented by Sachin V. Patwardhan (Mount Tabor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for generating scores indicative of the severity of an acne condition of skin based on images of the skin. In exemplary implementations, a cross-polarized image with a skin area appearing therein is obtained and transformed to generate a red component image which is used to detect erythema in the skin area. A texture image with the skin area appearing therein is also obtained an...