US Patent Issued to Leica Biosystems Nussloch on July 15 for "Apparatus and method for indicating reagent status and tissue processor" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,129, issued on July 15, was assigned to Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH (Nussloch, Germany).

"Apparatus and method for indicating reagent status and tissue processor" was invented by Bao Zhang (Shanghai) and Lingjun Xie (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method for indicating a reagent status in a reagent bottle in a tissue processor and a tissue processor are provided. The apparatus includes a detector, a controller, and an indicator. The detector is configured to detect the reagent status. The controller is configured to generate a control signal based on the reagent status. The indicator is configured to ge...