US Patent Issued to GENENTECH on July 15 for "Automated detection of tumors based on image processing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,543, issued on July 15, was assigned to GENENTECH INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Automated detection of tumors based on image processing" was invented by Gregory Zelinsky Ferl (South San Francisco, Calif.), Richard Alan Duray Carano (South San Francisco, Calif.), Kai Henrik Barck (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Jasmine Patil (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems disclosed herein relate generally to processing images to estimate whether at least part of a tumor is represented in the images. A computer-implemented method includes accessing an image of at least part of a biological struc...