ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,831, issued on July 1, was assigned to EPPENDORF SE (Hamburg, Germany).

"Incubator, system, and method" was invented by Christoph Jolie (Hamburg, Germany), Benjamin Paulsen (Hamburg, Germany) and Wolf Lukas Hellweg (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a live cell culture incubator, a method of working with an incubator, and a system comprising an incubator in which an object tracking system is implemented."

The patent was filed on Jan. 27, 2022, under Application No. 18/262,158.

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