ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,820, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Synthetic IHC-stained digital sides generated using artificial neural networks" was invented by Metin Nafi Gurcan (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Caglar Senaras (Senaras, Netherlands) and Gerard Lozanski (West Dublin, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods and computer-program products to create synthetic immunohistochemistry (IHC) stained digital slides generated using artificial neural networks (ANNs). In some implementations, the created digital slides can be used as a ground truth to evaluate a method of analyzing...