US Patent Issued to Tohoku University on June 3 for "Medical device having space for assisting in embedding of bio sample in embedding material" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,905, issued on June 3, was assigned to Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan).

"Medical device having space for assisting in embedding of bio sample in embedding material" was invented by Yuji Tanaka (Kofu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It was difficult to create a thin bio sample embedded in an embedding material without using an expensive microtome. The present invention provides a medical device having a space for assisting in the embedding of a bio sample in an embedding material, the medical device being provided with a cover part and a base part having a recessed section in which the space is created by covering the cover part...