US Patent Issued to Ventana Medical Systems on June 17 for "Automated specimen processing systems and methods" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,154, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ventana Medical Systems Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Automated specimen processing systems and methods" was invented by Timothy James Durrant (Camberwell, Australia), Matthew Ketterer (Oro Valley, Ariz.), Michael Schurig (Tucson, Ariz.), Jorge Nicholas Quijada (Oro Valley, Ariz.) and John Douglas Willems Jr. (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure presents systems and methods for processing a specimen slide using a specimen processing system. Specimen slides may sequentially be ejected from a slide carrier towards a label reader to determine an appropriate processing protocol for...