ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,858, issued on March 24, was assigned to National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Rapid fresh digital-pathology method" was invented by Chi-Kuang Sun (Taipei, Taiwan), Bhaskar Jyoti Borah (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yao-Chen Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rapid fresh digital-pathology (RFP) method for assessing an excised unfixed biological specimen stained with hematoxylin (H) or eosin (E) or both hematoxylin and eosin (HE) staining dyes. The RFP method is assisted by a rapid tissue staining (RTS) procedure which is performed on the excised unfixed biological specimen, involving a short fixation; an H-staining...