ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,574, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Mikroscan Technologies (Vista, Calif.).
"Method of handling slides" was invented by Jeffrey Ross Gray (San Diego) and James Clail Crowe (Carlsbad, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of positioning a slide for examination is disclosed. The method includes the steps of placing the slide in a carrier configured to retain the slide, placing the carrier in a cartridge configured to accept the carrier, coupling the cartridge to a microscope, and activating the microscope to automatically extract the carrier from the cartridge and position the carrier such that a portion of the slide is disp...