ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,858, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for caching biological image data" was invented by Prakash Boda (Santa Clara, Calif.), Abhisheak Sharma (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Steve Yungming Yu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of displaying biological image data in an interface application on a digital pathology analysis system includes: receiving a first user input pertaining to a first patient case; contacting a remote server for one or more stored biological image tiles corresponding to the received first user input, wherein the stored biologica...