ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,992, issued on Nov. 11.
"NMR apparatus with flexible sample transport tube" was invented by Reto Schmid (Winterthur, Switzerland) and Sven Sieber (Seegraben, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An NMR spectrometer having an NMR magnet system which is mounted on a device for isolating the vibrations of the NMR magnet system from the environment includes a sample storage means for providing and temporarily storing NMR measurement samples to be measured, and a transport device for transporting one NMR measurement sample at a time from the sample storage means to a measurement volume within the NMR magnet system. The transport dev...