ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,661, issued on April 14, was assigned to Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH (Nussloch, Germany).
"Tissue processor" was invented by Bin Liu (Shanghai) and Qi Cheng (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue processor includes first and second retorts; reagent bottles fluidly coupled with the first and second retorts; infiltrating baths fluidly coupled with first and second retorts; a pressure generating assembly providing positive or negative pressure in at least one of the first and second retorts, to draw or drain reagent or infiltrating material into or from the respective retort; and a rotary valve fluidly coupling first and ...