US Patent Issued to GENENTECH on Nov. 3 for "Pathological response calculation and assessment tool" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,194, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to GENENTECH INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Pathological response calculation and assessment tool" was invented by Anjali Saqi (New York), Shawn Wen Sun (El Cerrito, Calif.), Kosei Tajima (Saitama, Japan) and Barbara Jennifer Gitlitz (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes, for each of a set of samples, receiving data input that includes dimensions of a sample area, a percentage of the sample area being viable cells, and a percentage of the sample area exhibiting necrosis. The method includes, for each of the set of samples, computing a percentage of th...