ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,046, issued on March 17, was assigned to Faxitron Bioptics LLC (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Pathology review station" was invented by Ciaran Purdy (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a pathology review station are disclosed. The pathology review station may assist pathologists in analyzing, slicing, or sampling specimens by, in part, projecting an image onto a specimen. The process of projecting an image onto a specimen may include identification of the specimen based on characteristics of the specimen, characteristics of a tray supporting the specimen, or user input. The identified specimen may then be m...