US Patent Issued to Hermatologics on Nov. 4 for "System, method, and article for detecting abnormal cells using multi-dimensional analysis" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,105, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Hermatologics Inc. (Seattle).

"System, method, and article for detecting abnormal cells using multi-dimensional analysis" was invented by Michael R. Loken (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Andrew P. Voigt (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A normal set of cells is characterized using flow cytometry. A centroid and radius are defined for a set of clusters in an n-dimensional space corresponding to a normal maturation for a cell lineage in the normal set of cells. A test set of cells is characterized using flow cytometry and the characterization is compared to the defined set of clusters. Support Vec...