ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,498, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to 13652611 CANADA INC. (Laval, Canada).

"Label system and method for labelling pre-identified microscope slides" was invented by Gourgen Ambartsoumian (Laval, Canada), John Wagner (Laval, Canada) and Timothy Ostiguy (Laval, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A label for matrix tube may have a facestock configured to have data on a first surface thereof. An adhesive layer may be on a second surface of the facestock. The facestock may define an cover label portion, a main label portion and a neck portion between the cover label portion and the main label portion, the neck portion being narrower ...