US Patent Issued to RetInSight on Nov. 18 for "Computer-implemented method and device for automatic prediction of geographic atrophy" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,012, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to RetInSight GmbH (Vienna).

"Computer-implemented method and device for automatic prediction of geographic atrophy" was invented by Wolf-Dieter Vogl (Vienna) and Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatic prediction of a geographic atrophy (GA) from optical coherence tomography (OCT) data of a retina of a patient includes segmenting the OCT data using a first segmentation algorithm for providing a GA segmentation of the geographic atrophy in the retina, and segmenting the OCT data for providing structure-specific segmentations of certain structures in the...