ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,984, issued on March 18, was assigned to Acer Medical Inc. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Electronic device and method of training classification model for age-related macular degeneration" was invented by Meng-Che Cheng (New Taipei, Taiwan), Ming-Tzuo Yin (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Yi-Ting Hsieh (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device and a method of training a classification model for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are provided. The method includes the following steps. Training data is obtained. A loss function vector corresponding to the training data is calculated based on a machine learning algorithm, ...