ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,994, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to C.C. Imex (San Diego).
"Gel tray for bacteria transformation lab" was invented by Callen Elizabeth Hyland (La Jolla, Calif.), Christopher Karl Schroeder (San Diego), Rita Mei Yi Wong (San Diego) and Richard Tat Lee Chan (La Jolla, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gel tray for a bacterial transformation lab exercise has a plastic body with four parallel gel channels and four filling ports, one for each channel into which unmodified bacteria and heat-shocked bacteria can be injected by students along with appropriate reaction constituents to demonstrate transformation of the bacteria under...