US Patent Issued to OHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATION, WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES on Nov. 3 for "Creating a tumor bud ground truth of H and E stained slides and automated identification of tumor buds using an H and E stained slides" (North Carolina, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,207, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to OHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATION (Columbus, Ohio) and WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Creating a tumor bud ground truth of H and E stained slides and automated identification of tumor buds using an H and E stained slides" was invented by Metin N. Gurcan (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Wendy L. Frankel (Hilliard, Ohio), Wei Chen (Worthington, Ohio) and Muhammad Khalid Khan Niazi (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tumor budding (TB) is defined as a cluster of one to four tumor cells at the tumor invasive front. Though promising as a prognostic factor for color...