ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,001, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sanofi (Paris).

"Predicting patient responses to a chemical substance" was invented by Wenzhi Cao (Seattle), Yechi Ma (Lawrenceville, N.J.) and Qi Tang (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, a data processing system includes a computer-readable memory comprising computer-executable instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute executable logic including at least one artificial neural network trained to predict one or more responses to a chemical substance by identifying one or more discrete biological tissue components in a biological image. When the ...