US Patent Issued to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic on May 6 for "System and method for rapid and accurate histologic analysis of tumor margins using machine learning" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,836, issued on May 6, was assigned to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic (Lebanon, N.H.).

"System and method for rapid and accurate histologic analysis of tumor margins using machine learning" was invented by Matthew LeBoeuf (Hanover, N.H.), Louis J. Vaickus (Etna, N.H.) and Joshua J. Levy (Lebanon, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a histologic system and method for rapidly and accurately assessing tumor margins for the presence or absence of tumor using machine learning algorithms. This affords a rapid and accurate histologic tumor readout and increase process efficiency and decreases the chance for human error. A...