ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,824, issued on March 24.
"Method for extraction of target cells from 3D tissue by optical identification" was invented by Andreas Bosio (Bergisch Gladbach, Germany) and Heinrich Spiecker (Bielefeld, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to a process for extracting target cells from a three dimensional biological specimen by the steps imaging the three dimensional specimen; identifying target cells; registering the spatial parameters (x,y,z coordinates) of the target cells; and extraction of target cells according to their spatial parameters"
The patent was filed on Feb. 25, 2021, under Application No. 17/...