ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,995, issued on July 15, was assigned to LEICA BIOSYSTEMS MELBOURNE PTY LTD (Mount Waverley, Australia).
"Slide tray assembly" was invented by Brenden Anthony Shawcroft (Melbourne, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slide tray assembly for an slide input module or an slide output module of an automated treatment apparatus for treating tissue samples disposed on slides, the slide tray assembly comprising: a slide tray; and a slide tray cover adjacent to the slide tray forming one or more voids between the slide tray and the slide tray cover for receiving slides therein, wherein the slide tray cover comprises an indent at one en...