ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,682, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAKURA FINETEK U.S.A. INC. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Tissue cassette reader" was invented by Hwai-Jyh Michael Yang (Cerritos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including: a base; a carriage coupled to the base and projecting a distance above the base, the carriage operable to contain a mobile phone comprising a camera array in a position such that the camera array faces in a direction of the base; and a controller including machine-readable instructions operable to direct a movement of one of the carriage and the base in a direction with respect to the other along an axis. A method in...