US Patent Issued to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic on March 11 for "System and method for providing a rapid virtual diagnostic companion for use in diagnosis of cancer and related conditions using immunohistochemistry based upon a neural network" (New Hampshire, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,063, issued on March 11, was assigned to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic (Lebanon, N.H.).

"System and method for providing a rapid virtual diagnostic companion for use in diagnosis of cancer and related conditions using immunohistochemistry based upon a neural network" was invented by Christopher R. Jackson (White River Junction, Vt.) and Louis J. Vaickus (Etna, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This provides a system and method for analyzing and diagnosing conditions, such as cancer, based upon stained tissue sample slides prepared by users from patient tissue taken, for example, in a biopsy procedure. A convolutional neural network (...