US Patent Issued to Clarapath on April 7 for "Automated tissue sectioning and storage system" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,059, issued on April 7, was assigned to Clarapath Inc. (Hawthorne, N.Y.).

"Automated tissue sectioning and storage system" was invented by Partha P. Mitra (New York), Baris Yagci (Montclair, N.J.) and Cong Zhang (Hawthorne, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for automatically transferring sections from a sample block to a tape and for transferring select sections to a slide. A tissue storage system for storing cut sections on the tape and digital storage system for storing photos and other information during the transfer of the sections can also be provided, thereby creating a tissue repository and data reposi...