ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,045, issued on March 17, was assigned to Life Technologies Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Smart qPCR" was invented by Wallace George (Oakland, Calif.) and Deepankar Chanda (College Station, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention are disclosed that implement deep learning methods using artificial neural networks to provide improved automated predictions regarding whether a particular sample comprises a target molecule. In some embodiments, a convolutional neural network is used. In some embodiments, an artificial neural network is trained using a class-weighted error determination. These and other embodiments a...