ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,276, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Faxitron Bioptics LLC (Marlborough, Mass.).
"System and method for multi-axis imaging of specimens" was invented by Ciaran Purdy (Wilmington, Del.) and Donogh O'Driscoll (Westport, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A specimen holding and positioning apparatus operable to substantially non-movably maintain a specimen (e.g., an excised tissue specimen) in a fixed or stable orientation with respect to the apparatus during imaging operations (e.g., x-ray imaging), transport (e.g., from a surgery room to a pathologist's laboratory), and the like for use in facilitating accurate detection and diagno...