US Patent Issued to MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER on March 25 for "Identifying neutrophil extracellular traps in peripheral blood smears" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,329, issued on March 25, was assigned to MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER (Bronx, N.Y.).

"Identifying neutrophil extracellular traps in peripheral blood smears" was invented by Morayma Reyes Gil (New Rochelle, N.Y.), Kenji Ikemura (Bronx, N.Y.), Mohammad Barouqa (Bronx, N.Y.), Henny Billett (Bronx, N.Y.) and Margarita Kushnir (Bronx, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology is directed to identifying neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in blood. For example, the present technology provides artificial intelligence systems, architectures, and/or programs that can rapidly and/or automatically identify and/or enumerate NETs...