US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on July 21 for "System and method for diagnosing celiac disease" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,583, issued on July 21, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"System and method for diagnosing celiac disease" was invented by Guillermo J. Tearney (Cambridge, Mass.), Girish Gududappanavar Nagarajappa (Thyavanige, India) and David Odeke Otuya (Revere, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying an intestinal disorder in a subject, including: obtaining an image of a small intestinal region of the subject; identifying a villus structure in the image; measuring at least one feature based on the identified villus structure to obtain a metric; and identifying an intestinal disorder based on the metric."...