US Patent Issued to Ventana Medical Systems on Sept. 23 for "Method for analysing scanning efficacy" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,658, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Ventana Medical Systems Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Method for analysing scanning efficacy" was invented by Martin Philip Gouch (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Louise Joanne Collins (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and William Hawes (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for operating a microscope scanner. A first imaging scan is performed of one or more area(s) of interest, AOI, on a target including a sample. This involves moving a detector array relative to the target along an image scan path and acquiring an image of the target at each of a plurality of...