US Patent Issued to HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE on April 21 for "Method of generating a metric to quantitatively represent an effect of a treatment" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,807, issued on April 21, was assigned to HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE INC. (Little Falls, N.J.).

"Method of generating a metric to quantitatively represent an effect of a treatment" was invented by Oliver Grimm (Basel, Switzerland) and Marta Canamero (Penzberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of generating a metric to quantitatively represent an effect of a treatment are disclosed. In one arrangement, first and second sample data units are received, each representing a segmented image of a biological sample taken from a subject. The segmentation divides the image into plural segmentation sets of regions. Each of the first and se...