US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics on Dec. 23 for "Hypothesizing and verification networks and methods for specimen classification" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,435, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Hypothesizing and verification networks and methods for specimen classification" was invented by Venkatesh NarasimhaMurthy (Hillsborough, N.J.), Vivek Singh (Princeton, N.J.), Yao-Jen Chang (Princeton, N.J.), Benjamin S. Pollack (Jersey City, N.J.) and Ankur Kapoor (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of characterizing a specimen as containing hemolysis, icterus, or lipemia is provided. The method includes capturing one or more images of the specimen, wherein the one or more images include a serum or plasma portion of ...