ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,317, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (Newcastle, Great Britain).

"Body tissue preservation system and method" was invented by William Earl Scott III (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain), Stuart Kay (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain) and Leo Freitas (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A body tissue preservation system (300) for storage and preservation of body tissue (114), the system comprising: abase unit (200) having a reader (240) configured to obtain data from a machine-readable marker; a container unit (100) that is arranged to receive the body tissue, compris...