ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,298, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Clarapath Inc. (Hawthorne, N.Y.).

"Automated tissue section system with cut quality prediction" was invented by Baris Yagci (Montclair, N.Y.), Steven Smith (Hawthorne, N.Y.) and Partha P. Mitra (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sectioning system includes a chuck assembly configured to receive a tissue block, a cutting assembly configured to remove a tissue section from the tissue block, at least one sensor configured to sense data regarding dynamics of one or more components of at least one of the chuck assembly or the cutting assembly, and a control system. The control system is confi...