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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2023
Life Technologies Corporation, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Thomas Baer, Mountain View, CA (US);
Craig Barker, San Carlos, CA (US);
Brian Donovan, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Youngquist, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Alan Wessel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Norbert Leclerc, Heidelberg, DE;
Michael Smith, Carlsbad, CA (US);
George Dawson, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Life Technologies Corporation, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for automated laser microdissection are disclosed including automatic slide detection, position detection of cutting and capture lasers, focus optimization for cutting and capture lasers, energy and duration optimization for cutting and capture lasers, inspection and second phase capture and/or ablation in a quality control station and tracking information for linking substrate carrier or output microdissected regions with input sample or slide.