ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,895, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Pramana Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Apparatus and method for feedback utilization in automated scanning systems" was invented by Pavani Pallavi Pelluru (Pocharam, India), Raghubansh Bahadur Gupta (Bengaluru, India), Viral Pandey (Cambridge, Mass.), Ramanjaneya Reddy (Bengaluru, India) and Sarvesh Kumar Thapa (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for feedback utilization in automated scanning systems, the apparatus including a scanning system and a computing device configured to extract a unique identifier from the slide label located on the at least a slide using the scann...