ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,564, issued on Nov. 25.

"Data processing system for estimating disease progression rates" was invented by Anvitha Addanki (Canton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treatment of a disease by monitoring a progression of the disease includes obtaining image data including a representation of diseased cells of a patient. Based on the type of the disease, one or more features to extract from the image data are determined, the features each representing a physical parameter of at least one of the diseased cells represented in the image data. A feature vector is formed from the extracted features. A machine learning model i...