US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on July 28 for "System for processing a whole slide image, WSI, of a biopsy" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,511, issued on July 28, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System for processing a whole slide image, WSI, of a biopsy" was invented by Lionel Michel Blanchet (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Laurie Bax (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Carlos Sanchez Sanchez C (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Duygu Buyukaydin (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Wen-Yang Chu (Hasselt, Belgium) and Anja Van Gestel (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is provided for processing a whole slide image, WSI, of a biopsy such as a core needle biopsy or a vacuum assisted biopsy. A skeleton of the shape of the detected ti...