ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,245, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.), Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (Little Falls, N.J.) and Ventana Medical Systems Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Attention-based multiple instance learning" was invented by Yao Nie (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiao Li (Foster City, Calif.), Trung Kien Nguyen (Chelsea, Mich.), Fabien Gaire (Starnberg, Germany), Eldad Klaiman (Starnberg, Germany), Ido Ben-Shaul (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Jacob Gildenblat (Holon, Israel) and Ofir Etz Hadar (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods relate to predicting disease progression by processing digital pat...