US Patent Issued to Genentech, Hoffmann-La Roche on June 16 for "Image representation learning in digital pathology" (American, Israeli, French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,885, issued on June 16, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (Little Falls, N.J.).

"Image representation learning in digital pathology" was invented by Trung Kien Nguyen (Chelsea, Mich.), Samaneh Abbasi-Sureshjani (Basel, Switzerland), Jacob Gildenblat (Holon, Israel), Paul MB Dhalluin (Riedisheim, France) and Zijun Gao (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and programming for analyzing and classifying digital pathology images. Some embodiments include receiving whole slide images (WSIs) and dividing each of the WSIs into tiles. For e...