ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,110, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Leica Biosystems Imaging Inc. (Vista, Calif.).
"Slide-scanner control" was invented by Peyman Najmabadi (Vista, Calif.), Nicholas Newberg (Vista, Calif.), Prentash Djelosevic (Vista, Calif.) and Aaron Stearrett (Vista, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control processes for a slide-scanning system comprising a carousel with a plurality of rack slots configured to receive slide racks via an exposed portion of the scanning system. In an embodiment, initializing the scanning system comprises automatically homing back-end and front-end components, wherein the front-end components comprise the c...