US Patent Issued to Clarapath on Sept. 2 for "Facing and quality control in microtomy" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,194, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Clarapath Inc. (Hawthorne, N.Y.).

"Facing and quality control in microtomy" was invented by Partha P. Mitra (New York), Charles Cantor (New York), Baris Yagci (New York), David Kleinfeld (New York), Cong Zhang (New York) and Steven Smith (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for facing a tissue block. In some embodiments, a method is provided for facing a tissue block that includes imaging a tissue block to generate imaging data of the tissue block, the tissue block comprising a tissue sample embedded in an embedding material, estimating,...