US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on May 27 for "System and method of using right and left eardrum otoscopy images for automated otoscopy image analysis to diagnose ear pathology" (North Carolina, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,143, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"System and method of using right and left eardrum otoscopy images for automated otoscopy image analysis to diagnose ear pathology" was invented by Metin Gurcan (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Aaron Moberly (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods to detect a wide range of eardrum abnormalities by using high-resolution otoscope images of both a left eardrum and a right eardrum of a subject and report the condition of each of the eardrums as "normal" or "abnormal.""

The patent was filed on Dec. 8, 2021, u...