US Patent Issued to Welch Allyn on May 13 for "Automated disease identification based on ophthalmic images" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,385, issued on May 13, was assigned to Welch Allyn Inc. (Skaneateles Falls, N.Y.).

"Automated disease identification based on ophthalmic images" was invented by Allen R. Hart (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Hongying Krause (Cranleigh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes identifying at least one image of an eye of a patient. The method further includes detecting, by a first computing model, at least one first feature in the at least one image and detecting, by a second computing model, at least one second feature in the at least one image. Further, using a third computing model that is different than the fir...