US Patent Issued to Leica Biosystems Nussloch on March 25 for "Blade load mechanism, blade unload mechanism and blade changing system" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,303, issued on March 25, was assigned to Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH (Nussloch, Germany).

"Blade load mechanism, blade unload mechanism and blade changing system" was invented by Zheguang Fan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a blade load mechanism for a blade holder of a microtome. The blade holder has a base defining a blade receptacle configured to receive a blade, the blade load mechanism includes a blade supply container configured to contain a blade therein, the blade supply container defining a removal opening through which the blade is able to be removed from the blade supply contain...