ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,692, issued on July 22, was assigned to Ventana Medical Systems Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Systems for automated in situ hybridization analysis" was invented by Srinivas Chukka (Tucson, Ariz.), Thomas M. Grogan (Tucson, Ariz.) and Anindya Sarkar (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides for image processing systems and methods for analyzing digital images of biological samples stained for the presence of protein and/or nucleic acid biomarkers and detecting and quantifying signals corresponding to one or more biomarkers. The present disclosure also provides systems and methods for the clinical interpret...