US Patent Issued to BIOPATH AUTOMATION, SAKURA FINETEK U.S.A. on April 8 for "Microtome sectionable gel support structure and methods" (California, Massachusetts, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,739, issued on April 8, was assigned to BIOPATH AUTOMATION LLC (Marion, Mass.) and SAKURA FINETEK U.S.A. INC. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Microtome sectionable gel support structure and methods" was invented by Warren P. Williamson IV (Marion, Mass.), Richard W. Dapson (Richland, Mich.) and Amit D. Shah (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sectionable tissue sample support structure including a gel compound formed into a self supporting geometric shape for retention and orientation of at least one tissue sample during a histopathology process including processing, embedding and microtome slicing of the tissue sample...