US Patent Issued to GEORGE MASON RESEARCH FOUNDATION on Jan. 20 for "Compositions and methods for laser capture microdissection" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,630, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GEORGE MASON RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Fairfax, Va.).

"Compositions and methods for laser capture microdissection" was invented by Lance Liotta (Bethesda, Md.), Virginia Espina (Rockville, Md.), Nitin Agrawal (Fairfax, Va.) and Alessandra Luchini Kunkel (Burke, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for the simulataneous capture and release using micropattern surfaces for tissue and cell microdissection. In one example, a patterned thermoplastic film has a first surface and a plurality of projections attached to and extending outwardly from the first surface. The projection...