ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,608, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Caelum Diagnostic Solutions Inc. (Marina Del Rey, Calif.).
"Using FLIM for biopsy before chemical fixation" was invented by Derek S. Olender (San Jose, Calif.), Rachel Beth Wellner (Venice, Calif.) and Lu Wang (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided comprising: positioning a slide that includes a concave region that is formed in a top surface of the slide and that can contain an object, such that a focal point of an objective lens of a fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) device is within an area of the concave region between a bottom surface of the conc...