US Patent Issued to Ventana Medical Systems on Aug. 19 for "Assay reaction controller magazine" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,789, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Ventana Medical Systems Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Assay reaction controller magazine" was invented by Joshua Harrison (Tucson, Ariz.), Benjamin James (St. Kilda, Australia) and Matthew Ketterer (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for providing and dispensing opposables onto slides are provided in which magazines loaded with opposables include retention arms to reduce movement of the opposables during shipment and processing and to reduce or eliminate contamination."

The patent was filed on Dec. 14, 2020, under Application No. 17/121,668.

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