ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,004, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ventana Medical Systems Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).
"Diffusion monitoring protocol for optimized tissue fixation" was invented by Daniel Bauer (Tucson, Ariz.), David Chafin (Tucson, Ariz.) and Michael Otter (Tucson, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject disclosure presents systems and computer-implemented methods for evaluating a tissue sample that has been removed from a subject. A change in speed of the energy traveling through the sample is evaluated to monitor changes in the biological sample during processing. The rate of change in the speed of the energy is correlated with the extent o...