US Patent Issued to THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL on Feb. 25 for "Automatic determination of a biological condition of a subject from ferning patterns" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,259, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC. (Boston).

"Automatic determination of a biological condition of a subject from ferning patterns" was invented by Hadi Shafiee (Boston), Manoj Kumar Kanakasabapathy (Boston) and Prudhvi Thirumalaraju (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for determining if a subject has a biological condition from a dried fluid sample. A fluid sample from a subject is dried in a microfluidic device to provide a dried fluid sample. The dried fluid sample is imaged at a camera to provide a sample image, and the sample image is provided to a co...