US Patent Issued to Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital on May 27 for "System and method for automation of surgical pathology processes using artificial intelligence" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,636, issued on May 27, was assigned to Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital (Lebanon, N.H.).

"System and method for automation of surgical pathology processes using artificial intelligence" was invented by Matthew LeBoeuf (Hanover, N.H.), Joshua J. Levy (Lebanon, N.H.) and Louis J. Vaickus (Etna, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a system for automation of a pathology process, which includes a processor having trained artificial intelligence (AI) modules operating in association therewith, adapted to receive image data from camera images of whole tissue acquired by a camera assembly and whole slide images (WSIs)...