US Patent Issued to Ventana Medical Systems on Feb. 17 for "Automated specimen processing systems and methods of detecting specimen-bearing microscope slides" (Australian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,908, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Ventana Medical Systems Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Automated specimen processing systems and methods of detecting specimen-bearing microscope slides" was invented by Timothy James Durrant (Camberwell, Australia), Joshua David Kenneth Harrison (Tucson, Ariz.), Benjamin Arthur James (St. Kilda, Australia), Matthew Ketterer (Oro Valley, Ariz.) and John Douglas Willems (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that enable automated processing of specimens carried on microscope slides are described herein. In some embodiments, the system can include, for example, a slide ejector ...