US Patent Issued to GENENTECH on Aug. 4 for "Assessing heterogeneity of features in digital pathology images using machine learning techniques" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,248, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GENENTECH INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Assessing heterogeneity of features in digital pathology images using machine learning techniques" was invented by Cleopatra Kozlowski (Woodside, Calif.) and Reheman Baikejiang (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes, receiving a digital pathology image of a tissue sample and subdividing the digital pathology image into a plurality of patches. For each patch of the plurality of patches, the method includes identifying an image feature detected in the patch and generating one or more labels corr...