ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,063, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Leavitt Medical Inc. (Lehi, Utah).
"Systems and methods for aligning digital slide images" was invented by Michael Andrew Ivie (Orem, Utah) and John Bitner Wirthlin (Salt Lake City).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) receiving an image of a section of a sectionable tissue sample block, the image including image data of, embedded into the section of the sectionable tissue sample block, (A) a section of a tissue sample, and (B) a section of a sectionable fiducial marker, (2) determining an attribute of the section of the sectionable fiducial ma...