ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,040, issued on July 15, was assigned to Bruker Spatial Biology Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for spatial mapping of expression profiling" was invented by Peter Askovich (Seattle), Gayathri Balasundaram (Sammamish, Wash.), Joseph M. Beechem (Eugene, Ore.), Michael McKean (Gig Harbor, Wash.) and Bishop Wilkins (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses and methods for spatially mapping at least one biological expression of a target biological component contained in a tissue sample to an image of the tissue sample are provided. In some embodiments, the system includes a processor and instructions that, when exec...