ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,880, issued on July 7, was assigned to Ventana Medical Systems Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.) and Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Transformation of histochemically stained images into synthetic immunohistochemistry (IHC) images" was invented by Xingwei Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Auranuch Lorsakul (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zuo Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yao Nie (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hartmut Koeppen (San Mateo, Calif.), Hauke Kolster (Fresno, Calif.) and Kandavel Shanmugam (Oro Valley, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to techniques for obtaining a synthetic immunohistochemistry (IHC) image from a histoc...