ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,962, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Clarapath Inc. (Hawthorne, N.Y.).

"Connected systems for automated tissue section preparation and methods of use thereof" was invented by Partha P. Mitra (Hawthorne, N.Y.), Charles Cantor (Hawthorne, N.Y.), Baris Yagci (Hawthorne, N.Y.), Jonathan Gardi (Hawthorne, N.Y.) and Dmitry Khavulya (Hawthorne, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods enable fully automated tissue processing using tissue processing components for producing tissue sections from a tissue sample block and to transfer the tissue sections to slides. A control device queries a Laboratory Information Management S...