ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,896, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (Little Falls, N.J.).
"Distance-based tissue state determination" was invented by Fabien Gaire (Penzberg, Germany), Karin Emilia Andersson (Penzberg, Germany), Franziska Braun (Penzberg, Germany), Konstanty Korski (Penzberg, Germany) and Fabian Schmich (Penzberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image analysis method for determining the biomedical state of a tissue sample. The method includes receiving a digital image of a tissue sample, identifying the number and location of A-type cells and B-type cells, obtaining an observed relative distribution, obtaining a ...