ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,081, issued on March 17, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas).

"Systems and methods for directly predicting cancer patient survival based on histopathology images" was invented by Narayan Hegde (Mountain View, Calif.), Yun Liu (Mountain View, Calif.), Craig Mermel (Mountain View, Calif.), David F. Steiner (Mountain View, Calif.), Ellery Wulczyn (Mountain View, Calif.), Po-Hsuan Cameron Chen (Mountain View, Calif.), Martin Stumpe (Mountain View, Calif.), Zhaoyang Xu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Apaar Sadhwani (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes obtaining one or more histopatho...