US Patent Issued to Agilent Technologies on June 10 for "Deparaffinization of tissue by electric field generation and ionization" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,387, issued on June 10, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Deparaffinization of tissue by electric field generation and ionization" was invented by Victor Lim (Pacifica, Calif.), Carol T. Schembri (San Mateo, Calif.), Adrienne Mccampbell (San Jose, Calif.) and Nazumi Alice Yama-Dang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Paraffin-embedded tissue, which may be disposed on a solid substrate, is prepared by a dry technique that removes paraffin from tissue without adding any liquid to the tissue, thereby rendering the tissue substantially free of paraffin. The dry technique may entail applying he...