ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,564, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to PROSCIA INC. (Philadelphia).

"Digital pathology artificial intelligence quality check" was invented by Julianna Ianni (Merchantville, N.J.), Vaughn Spurrier (Philadelphia) and Sean Grullon (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques of automated quality control for digital pathology whole slide images are presented. The techniques include obtaining a thumbnail image derived from a whole slide image of a pathology slide; determining whether the whole slide image includes an artifact in a first class of artifacts by providing the thumbnail image to an electronic neural network trained...