ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,385, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Skin Analytics Ltd. (London).

"Qualification of a dermascope imaging device" was invented by Jack Hector Greenhalgh (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Qualifying an unqualified dermascope imaging device for use with an image classification algorithm is described. A qualification data set comprising a plurality of pairs of images of skin lesions is accessed, wherein each pair comprises an image of a skin lesion captured by an unqualified dermascope imaging device and an image of the skin lesion captured by a qualified dermascope imaging device. Using the image classification algorithm, a con...