US Patent Issued to Ventana Medical Systems on Aug. 26 for "Automated identification of necrotic regions in digital images of multiplex immunofluorescence stained tissue" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,461, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Ventana Medical Systems Inc. (Tuscon, Ariz.).

"Automated identification of necrotic regions in digital images of multiplex immunofluorescence stained tissue" was invented by Jessica Baumann (Tuscon, Ariz.), Mehrnoush Khojasteh (Redwood City, Calif.), Fahime Sheikhzadeh (Santa Clara, Calif.), Anirudh Som (Tempe, Ariz.) and Aicha Beya Ben Taieb (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to identifying necrotic tissue in a multiplex immunofluorescence image of a slice of specimen. Particularly, aspects of the present disclosure are directed ...