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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stephen Mastorides, Tampa, FL (US);
Carlos Cordon-Cardo, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01N 1/00 ; C12M 1/00 ; C12M 1/34 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01N 1/00 ; C12M 1/00 ; C12M 1/34 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a method for creating a cryoarray of frozen tissue cores using a cryoarray system. Such system comprises a tissue mold, an embedding medium and a cryoarray device. The cryoarray device comprises a mold plate, an ejector plate, mold alignment pins, ejector pins, and cryoarray pins. Such method/system may be used for preparing frozen sections with multiple tissue specimens for assays such as in-situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry.