US Patent Issued to New York University on Jan. 27 for "System and method for tumor characterization" (New York, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,223, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to New York University (New York).

"System and method for tumor characterization" was invented by Jing Wang (New York), Prathamesh Kulkarni (New York) and Eric Robinson (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating a subject comprises administering a treatment to a subject identified as having a high probability of distant metastatic recurrence, wherein the probability of distant metastatic recurrence was determined by a process, comprising acquiring at least one image of a tissue sample comprising a plurality of cells, taken from a subject, classifying each of the plurality ...