ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,763, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Micromass UK Ltd. (Wilmslow, Great Britain).

"Tissue analysis" was invented by Emrys Jones (Manchester, Great Britain), Richard Chapman (Westborough, Mass.), Steven Derek Pringle (Darwen, Great Britain) and Michael Raymond Morris (Glossop, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of analysing a tissue sample. The method comprises identifying one or more regions of interest within the tissue sample based on a tissue stain that has been applied to the tissue sample. Analyte material is then generated from the one or more regions of interest identified based on the...