US Patent Issued to Duke University on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods related to age-related macular degeneration" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,147, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"Systems and methods related to age-related macular degeneration" was invented by Eleonora Lad (Durham, N.C.), Lawrence Carin (Durham, N.C.), Ricardo Henao Giraldo (Durham, N.C.), Cynthia Toth (Durham, N.C.) and Dong Wang (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems utilizing machine learning in detecting geographic atrophy. The system can include at least one processor, a memory, and a computing platform including the at least one processor and the memory. The computing platform can be configured to receive volumetric scan images, det...