ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,330, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. (Tucson, Ariz.).
"Slide imaging apparatus" was invented by William Roland Hawes (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Jagdish Pankhania (Harrow, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming an image of a sample mounted on a slide includes: forming, using an imaging system, a first image of a first swathe of a plurality of swathes, the first swathe being positionally constrained within an aperture in a movable stage configured to move along first and second slide movement axes relative to the imaging system; using a copy holder moving system to mov...