US Patent Issued to Ventana Medical Systems on Feb. 4 for "Processing system for processing specimens using acoustic energy" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,089, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Ventana Medical Systems Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Processing system for processing specimens using acoustic energy" was invented by David Chafin (Tucson, Ariz.), Michael Otter (Tucson, Ariz.), Abbey Pierson (Tucson, Ariz.) and Jefferson Curtis Taft (Sahuarita, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fixing a biological sample includes delivering energy through a biological sample that has been removed from a subject, while fixing the biological sample. A change in speed of the energy traveling through the biological sample is evaluated to monitor the progress of the fixation. A system for ...