US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services on April 8 for "Fixatives and methods of use" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,738, issued on April 8, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Moldova).

"Fixatives and methods of use" was invented by Stephen M. Hewitt (Potomac, Md.), Joon-Yong Chung (Rockville, Md.), Candice D. Perry (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Robert A. Star (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are compositions for fixing tissue for cytologic, histomorphologic, and/or molecular analysis (e.g., DNA, RNA, and/or protein analysis). In some embodiments, the fixatives are aldehyde-free fixatives, for example, formaldehyde- or formalin-fre...