US Patent Issued to THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, CHARITE UNIVERSITATSMEDIZIN BERLIN on March 25 for "Augmented digital microscopy for lesion analysis" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,607, issued on March 25, was assigned to THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC. (Boston) and CHARITE UNIVERSITATSMEDIZIN BERLIN (Berlin).

"Augmented digital microscopy for lesion analysis" was invented by George L. Mutter (Boston), Peter Hufnagl (Berlin), Sebastian Lohmann (Berlin) and David James Papke Jr. (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for augmenting digital analysis of lesions. An image of tissue having a glandular epithelial component is generated. The image represents a plurality of medium-scale epithelial components. For each of a plurality of cells within the image, a representative poi...