ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,578, issued on July 22, was assigned to University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) and United States Government as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington).

"Diagnosis of a disease condition using an automated diagnostic model" was invented by Michael Abramoff (Iowa City, Iowa) and Gwenole Quellec (Brest, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of identifying an object of interest can comprise obtaining first samples of an intensity distribution of one or more object of interest, obtaining second samples of an intensity distribution of confounder objects, transforming the first and second sa...