ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,835, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ventana Medical Systems Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).
"Systems and methods for monitoring tissue sample processing" was invented by Jefferson Curtis Taft (Sahuarita, Ariz.), David Chafin (Tucson, Ariz.), Michael Otter (Tucson, Ariz.) and Benjamin Stevens (Oro Valley, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue sample that has been removed from a subject can be evaluated. A change in speed of the energy traveling through the sample is evaluated to monitor changes in the biological sample during processing. The monitoring can detect movement of fluid with the sample and cross-linking. A system for perf...