ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,518, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Conroy Medical AB (Upplands Vasby, Sweden).

"Thawing device and method thereof" was invented by Mattias Tullberg (Uppsala, Sweden), Joachim Sallvin (Saltsjo-Boo, Sweden), Andreas Svensson (Vendelso, Sweden) and Sven Sundin (Norrtalje, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a thawing device configured to thaw/heat a blood product comprised in a container, the method comprising the steps of performing a massaging motion, by a first actuator, on one or more areas of an outer surface of the container, obtaining measurements, from a reflectance sensor coupled to an antenna, the measureme...