US Patent Issued to Genentech on April 7 for "Assessment of skin toxicity in an in vitro tissue samples using deep learning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,128, issued on April 7, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Assessment of skin toxicity in an in vitro tissue samples using deep learning" was invented by Fang-Yao Hu (San Mateo, Calif.) and Sara Francesca Santagostino (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a querying image associated with a tissue sample after a treatment by a drug compound, identifying a target layer of the tissue sample based on a machine-learning model trained to identify layers of tissue samples, calculating a normalized thickness of the identified target layer, and de...