US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Feb. 10 for "Automated rapid on-site evaluation machine and stain" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,791, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Automated rapid on-site evaluation machine and stain" was invented by Alejandro S. Mendoza (Davis, Calif.), Alaa M. Afify (Davis, Calif.) and Steven A. Lucero (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE) system for smearing, staining and capturing a digital image of a biological sample such as a fine needle aspiration (FNA) sample is presented. The system comprises a housing with a user interface monitor or screen, a smearing system, a staining system, and an image capture system. The h...