US Patent Issued to GEN-PROBE on Dec. 2 for "Tray for transfering solid reagents to a multi-well cartridge" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,422, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GEN-PROBE Inc. (San Diego).

"Tray for transfering solid reagents to a multi-well cartridge" was invented by Reza Bashar (San Diego) and Andrew Kindred (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tray for transferring a plurality of solid reagents to a multi-well cartridge, the tray including a top surface having a plurality of depressions formed therein, each depression being configured to receive and hold a single one of the solid reagents, and a barrier wall projecting above and substantially surrounding the top surface, where the barrier wall is discontinuous at a first end of the tray."

The ...