US Patent Issued on Jan. 28 for "Quantitative image-based disorder analysis for early detection of melanoma type features" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,935, issued on Jan. 28.

"Quantitative image-based disorder analysis for early detection of melanoma type features" was invented by Robert Allen Makin III (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Steven Michael Durbin (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of distinguishing benign and malignant skin conditions includes extracting a numerical value corresponding to an order parameter from an image of skin having a pigmented region. The numerical value of the order parameter may be utilized to assess the likelihood that a skin lesion is benign or malignant. The precise value may also be utilized to assess severity, which may include de...