ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,402, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Identification of a section of bodily tissue for pathology tests" was invented by Seshu Tirupathi (Dublin), Jonathan Peter Epperlein (Dublin), Pol Mac Aonghusa (Carbury, Ireland), Rahul Nair (Dublin), Sergiy Zhuk (Dublin) and Mykhaylo Zayats (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are provided for identification of a section of bodily tissue as either a candidate or a non-candidate for pathology tests. In some embodiments, a system can include a processor that executes computer-executable components stored in memory. The computer...