ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,325, issued on March 11.
"Column tube holder for improved-accuracy assays" was invented by Christopher Robert Sedlak (Framingham, Mass.), Joseph Charles Sedlak (Cambridge, Mass.), Laura Teresa Bortolin (Newtonville, Mass.) and Daniel Parker Salem (Somerville, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A column tube holder includes: a first side rail extending vertically; a second side rail extending vertically; a first shelf extending horizontally between the first side rail and the second side rail; a second shelf extending horizontally between the first side rail and the second side rail, the second shelf disposed below the first shelf;...