US Patent Issued to Genentech on June 23 for "Methods and systems for biomarker identification and discovery" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,005, issued on June 23, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for biomarker identification and discovery" was invented by Seyed Mohammadmohsen Hejrati (Stanford, Calif.), Heming Yao (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Miao Zhang (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining the health status of a retina of a subject. An optical coherence tomography (OCT) volume image of a retina of a subject may be received. A health indication output is generated, via a deep learning model, using the OCT volume image. The health indication output indicates a level of associati...