US Patent Issued to Hitachi High-Tech on June 30 for "Microscope slide and method for selecting the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,692, issued on June 30, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).

"Microscope slide and method for selecting the same" was invented by Toru Fujimura (Tokyo), Takahito Hashimoto (Tokyo), Shigehiko Kato (Tokyo), Eiko Nakazawa (Tokyo), Masahiko Ajima (Tokyo) and Akira Sawaguchi (Miyazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an efficient method for attaching a tissue section. In the invention, one of problems is solved by changing attachment conditions of the tissue section depending on an organ from which the tissue section is derived. A technique of achieving good adhesiveness between a microscope slide and a sectio...