ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,525, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Eppendorf SE (Hamburg, Germany).

"Laboratory tempering device and method" was invented by Frederic Stohrer (Hamburg, Germany), Patrick Schuenemann (Hamburg, Germany), Lutz Timmann (Hamburg, Germany) and Hauke Maltzen (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a laboratory tempering device for storing laboratory samples at a target temperature. It relates in particular to an incubator (1) for growing cell cultures. The invention moreover relates to a method for setting a target temperature in a laboratory tempering device that is based in particular on estimating t...