ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,715, issued on June 17, was assigned to ASTEC Co. Ltd. (Fukuoka, Japan).
"Method and system for selecting embryos" was invented by Jonathan Michael MacGillivray Hall (Adelaide, Australia), Donato Perugini (Adelaide, Australia) and Michelle Perugini (Adelaide, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Artificial Intelligence (AI) computational system for generating an embryo viability score from a single image of an embryo to aid selection of an embryo for implantation in an In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) procedure is described. The AI model uses a deep learning method applied to images in which the Zona Pellucida region in the image ...