US Patent Issued to University of Washington on March 18 for "Optical fixation monitor" (Washington, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,086, issued on March 18, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Optical fixation monitor" was invented by Eric J. Seibel (Seattle), Saniel D. Lim (Brookfield, Wis.) and Mark E. Fauver (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system includes a light source, a light detector, a processor, and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the monitoring system to perform functions. The functions include illuminating, via the light source, a biological sample that is within a container while a fixation process is performed on the biological sample. Th...