US Patent Issued to Genentech on Aug. 12 for "Deep neural network framework for processing oct images to predict treatment intensity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,320, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Deep neural network framework for processing oct images to predict treatment intensity" was invented by Michael Gregg Kawczynski (San Francisco), Jeffrey R. Willis (San Francisco), Nils Gustav Thomas Bengtsson (South San Francisco, Calif.), Jian Dai (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Simon Shang Gao (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods relate to processing optical tomography coherence (OCT) images to predict characteristics of a treatment to be administered to effectively treat age-related macular degeneration. The proce...