ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,320, issued on April 29, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Methods and apparatus for hashing and retrieval of training images used in HILN determinations of specimens in automated diagnostic analysis systems" was invented by Venkatesh NarasimhaMurthy (Hillsborough, N.J.), Vivek Singh (Princeton, N.J.), Yao-Jen Chang (Princeton, N.J.), Benjamin S. Pollack (Jersey City, N.J.), Ankur Kapoor (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Rayal Raj Prasad Nalam Venkat (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of characterizing a specimen to be analyzed in an automated diagnostic analysis system provides an HILN...