US Patent Issued to THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, The General Hospital on Aug. 11 for "Automated evaluation of human embryos" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,739, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC. (Boston) and The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Automated evaluation of human embryos" was invented by Hadi Shafiee (Boston), Charles Bormann (Boston), Manoj Kumar Kanakasabapathy (Boston) and Prudhvi Thirumalaraju (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for provided for automatic evaluation of a human embryo. An image of the embryo is obtained and provided to a neural network to generate a plurality of values representing the morphology of the embryo. The plurality of values representing the morphology of the embryo are e...