US Patent Issued to Leica Biosystems Imaging on Feb. 3 for "System and method for matching of block and slice histological samples" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,851, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Leica Biosystems Imaging Inc. (Vista, Calif.).

"System and method for matching of block and slice histological samples" was invented by Mandel Mickley (Vista, Calif.) and Robert Sykes (Newcastle, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Features are disclosed for imaging block and slice samples using an imaging system. The imaging system can link the images by identifiers associated with the block and slice samples. The imaging system can train a machine learning algorithm based on correctly linked images. In some embodiments, the trained machine learning algorithm may include an image analys...