ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,886, issued on May 20, was assigned to BLINK AG (Jena, Germany).

"Device for fractionating a suspension sample" was invented by Thomas Ellinger (Jena, Germany), Eugen Ermantraut (Jena, Germany), Horst Bosneck (Jena, Germany) and Andreas Starker (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a device for fractionating a suspension sample and to uses of such device. Furthermore, the present invention also relates to a method of fractionating a suspension sample into a liquid phase and a solid phase. The present invention also relates to a device and method for separating a sample comprising a solvent and...