US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on July 8 for "Histopathology classification through machine self-learning of "tissue fingerprints"" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,012, issued on July 8, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Histopathology classification through machine self-learning of "tissue fingerprints"" was invented by David Agus (Los Angeles), Daniel Ruderman (Los Angeles), Rishi Rawat (Los Angeles), Fei Sha (Los Angeles) and Darryl Shibata (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Histologic classification of pathology specimens through machine learning is a nascent field which offers tremendous potential to improve cancer medicine. Its utility has been limited, in part because of differences in tissue preparation and the relative paucity of well-annotated i...