ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,387, issued on July 8, was assigned to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York).

"Identifying regions of interest from whole slide images" was invented by Andrew Schaumberg (New York) and Thomas Fuchs (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates generally to identifying regions of interest in images, including but not limited to whole slide image region of interest identification, prioritization, de-duplication, and normalization via interpretable rules, nuclear region counting, point set registration, and histogram specification color normalization. This disclosure describes systems and methods fo...