ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,479, issued on July 21, was assigned to ERASMAI LLC (Orlando, Fla.).

"System for diagnosing Barrett's esophagus and related methods" was invented by Daniel L. Franklin (Silver Plume, Colo.), Domenico Coppola (Orlando, Fla.) and Anthony M. Magliocco (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is for diagnosing BE in a patient. The system includes a processor and memory, and the processor is configured to receive a WSI from an esophagus sample from the patient. The processor is configured to segment the WSI into image segments, extract features from each image segment using a CNN, and assign each image segment an attention s...