ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,401, issued on June 23, was assigned to Ventana Medical Systems Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Real-time prediction of tissue fixation time" was invented by Daniel R. Bauer (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods which facilitate the prediction of an estimated time in which one or more fluids will optimally be diffused into a biological specimen, e.g., a tissue sample derived from a human subject. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides systems and methods which facilitate the prediction of an estimated time until a biological specimen will optimally be fixed with one or ...