ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,784, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC. (Boston) and The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Automated evaluation of quality assurance metrics for assisted reproduction procedures" was invented by Hadi Shafiee (Boston), Charles Bormann (Winchester, Mass.), Manoj Kumar Kanakasabapathy (Boston) and Prudhvi Thirumalaraju (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for assigning a quality parameter to a reproductive cellular structure. An image of the reproductive cellular structure is obtained. The image of the reproductive cellular structure is provided to a neural...