ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,415, issued on May 6, was assigned to SPRINGLOC LTD. (Jerusalem).

"Method for delineating and linking/correlating opposing margins of a pathology specimen and immediately adjacent remaining in vivo margins" was invented by Shalom Strano (Jerusalem), Alexander Lomes (Moshav Hosen, Israel) and Steve Krupa (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is directed to a novel technique for anatomically orientating a removed tissue specimen with the margins of the tissue from which it has been removed. An example process of marking the margins of the excised surgical specimen and the anatomically adjacent in vivo margins can...