US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Jan. 28 for "System for automatic tumor detection and classification" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,296, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System for automatic tumor detection and classification" was invented by Parijat Prakash Prabhudesai (Bengaluru, India), Ganesh Kumar Mohanur Raghunathan (Bengaluru, India), Sumit Kumar Jha (Bangalore, India), Aditya Sista (Bengaluru, India) and Narasimha Murthy Chandan (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for automatically detecting and classifying tumor regions in a tissue slide. The method generally includes obtaining a digitized tissue slide from a tissue slide database an...