US Patent Issued to Akoya Biosciences on Sept. 8 for "Multiplexed tissue imaging" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,038, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Akoya Biosciences Inc. (Billerica, Mass.).

"Multiplexed tissue imaging" was invented by Julia Kennedy-Darling (Redwood City, Calif.), Peter J. Miller (Cambridge, Mass.) and Peter Harvey (Wilmington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus attaches to a microscope slide to form an enclosed fluidic chamber with input and output ports, where a tissue or cell sample on the slide can be processed using techniques such as immunohistochemical staining. Flow of reagents within the chamber can be laminar and highly uniform across the sample surface to achieve staining that is free of gradients...