US Patent Issued to HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE, GENENTECH on Oct. 28 for "Automated assessment of endoscopic disease" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,190, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE INC. (Little Falls, N.J.) and GENENTECH INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Automated assessment of endoscopic disease" was invented by Fillippo Arcadu (Basel, Switzerland), Benjamin Gutierrez-Becker (Basel, Switzerland), Andreas Thalhammer (Basel, Switzerland), Marco Prunotto (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Young Suk Oh (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application relates to devices and methods for analysing a colonoscopy video or a portion thereof, and for assessing the severity of ulcerative colitis in a subject by analysing a colonoscopy v...