US Patent Issued to Leavitt Medical on June 2 for "Tamper for embedding tissue samples" (Romanian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,804, issued on June 2, was assigned to Leavitt Medical Inc. (Lehi, Utah).

"Tamper for embedding tissue samples" was invented by Sorin Musat (Bucharest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tamper for making paraffin blocks for histology may include a pliable tamper head and a handle. The handle may be permanently or removably attached to the tamper by using screws, magnets, or the like. The tamper may be made from a pliable material, such as a silicone rubber, with improved thermal transfer and high latent heat. In use, the tamper may be warmed in advance to a working temperature by placing the tamper on a hot plate of the embeddi...