ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,731, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sanofi (Paris).

"Systems and methods for predicting expression levels" was invented by Anne-Laure Bauchet (Paris), Anthony Mei (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Qi Tang (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more methods of predicting expression levels. At least one of the methods includes preprocessing image data representing at least one biological image of a patient to generate preprocessed image data representing at least one preprocessed biological image of the patient; and applying a trained machine learning model to the preprocessed image data to predict, based at least partially...