US Patent Issued to Iterative Scopes on April 7 for "Systems for tracking disease progression in a patient" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,971, issued on April 7, was assigned to Iterative Scopes Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems for tracking disease progression in a patient" was invented by Daniel Wang (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jonathan Ng (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for tracking an evolution of a disease in a colon of a patient over time are configured for operations including receiving video data representing a colon of a patient; segmenting the video data into segments representing portions of a colon of the patient; extracting, from the video data based on the segmenting, a set of features representing locations in the colon of...