US Patent Issued to Ventana Medical Systems on April 7 for "Transporter systems, assemblies and associated methods for transporting tissue samples" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,551, issued on April 7, was assigned to Ventana Medical Systems Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Transporter systems, assemblies and associated methods for transporting tissue samples" was invented by Nathan Crum (Marana, Ariz.), Timothy Keller (Oro Valley, Ariz.), Alastair Laing (Oro Valley, Ariz.), Michael Otter (Tucson, Ariz.), Vinnie Petre (Tucson, Ariz.), Elizabeth Pigman (Tucson, Ariz.), Taylor Shingler (Tucson, Ariz.), Stacey Stanislaw (Tucson, Ariz.) and Benjamin Stevens (Oro Valley, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue sample that has been removed from a subject can be properly fixed for evaluation using the disclosed transpo...