US Patent Issued to BioNTech on July 15 for "Systems and methods for segmentation and measurement of a skin abnormality" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,554, issued on July 15, was assigned to BioNTech SE (Mainz, Germany).

"Systems and methods for segmentation and measurement of a skin abnormality" was invented by Chris Kane (Oxford, Great Britain), Leonardo Rubio Navarro (Oxford, Great Britain), Adeala Zabair (Oxford, Great Britain), Anna Chabokdast (Oxford, Great Britain) and James Klatzow (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is proposed for identifying ("segmenting") at least one portion of the skin of an animal which is a region of interest (e.g. a portion which is subject to an abnormality such as a tumor). The method uses at least a temperature dataset...