ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,302, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Roche Molecular Systems Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for meso-dissection" was invented by Michael Barnes (Oro Valley, Ariz.), Srinivas Chukka (San Jose, Calif.) and Mohammad Qadri (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject disclosure provides systems, computer-implemented methods, and clinical workflows for meso-dissection of biological specimens and tissue slides by incorporating annotation and inter-marker registration modules within digital pathology imaging and meso-dissection (or milling) systems. Images of a reference slide a milling slide may be acqu...