ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,967, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SILICON VALLEY SCIENTIFIC INC. (Livermore, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for processing tissue and other samples encoding cellular spatial position information" was invented by Stevan Bogdan Jovanovich (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a system comprising: a) spatial sampler system configured to collect and transmit one or a plurality of cells or nuclei from a tissue specimen, the system comprising: i) a lower carrier having an array of conduits passing therethrough, each conduit comprising an opening on a first side and communicating with an opening on a sec...