US Patent Issued to Genentech on Sept. 30 for "Prediction of geographic-atrophy progression using segmentation and feature evaluation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,756, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Prediction of geographic-atrophy progression using segmentation and feature evaluation" was invented by Jasmine Patil (South San Francisco, Calif.), Neha Sutheekshna Anegondi (South San Francisco, Calif.), Alexandre J Fernandez Coimbra (South San Francisco, Calif.), Simon Shang Gao (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Michael Gregg Kawczynski (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product for evaluating a geographic atrophy lesion. An image of a geographic atrophy (GA) lesion is received. A...