ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,880, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NantCell Inc. (Culver City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of analyzing microbiomes using artificial intelligence" was invented by Mustafa I. Jaber (Culver City, Calif.), Sandip Reddy (Culver City, Calif.) and Kamil Wnuk (Culver City, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed systems and methods include executing a convolutional neural network to detect a level of microbiome in a whole slide image associated with a patient, based on an output of the convolutional neural network, categorize the whole slide image as one of microbiome-low and microbiome-high, and, based on the categorizatio...