US Patent Issued to GENENTECH on Dec. 23 for "Neural network processing of OCT data to generate predictions of geographic-atrophy growth rates" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,141, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GENENTECH INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Neural network processing of OCT data to generate predictions of geographic-atrophy growth rates" was invented by Qi Yang (Foster City, Calif.) and Simon S. Gao (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to predicting geographic-atrophy lesion growth and/or geographic atrophy lesion size in an eye. The predictions can be generated by processing a data object using a neural network. The data object may include a three-dimensional data object representing a depiction of at least part of the eye or a mu...