US Patent Issued to Genentech on June 16 for "Multimodal geographic atrophy lesion segmentation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,717, issued on June 16, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Multimodal geographic atrophy lesion segmentation" was invented by Neha Sutheekshna Anegondi (South San Francisco, Calif.), Simon Shang Gao (South San Francisco, Calif.), Jiaxiang Jiang (South San Francisco, Calif.), Michael Gregg Kawczynski (South San Francisco, Calif.), Jasmine Patil (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Theodore C. Spaide (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for generating a geographic atrophy (GA) lesion segmentation mask corresponding to GA lesions in a retina is disclosed herein. In some...