ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,845, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Faxitron Bioptics LLC (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Orientation system for specimen imaging apparatus" was invented by Ciaran Purdy (Wilmington, Del.), Brad Jackson (Marlborough, Mass.) and Jared Moore (Marlborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating images of a specimen that includes triggering a source of electromagnetic radiation to emit a beam of electromagnetic radiation along an axis through a tissue specimen and towards an imaging detector, generating at least one image with the received beam at the imaging detector, and superimposing, into or adjacent the at least one ...