US Patent Issued to GRENOVA on April 1 for "Device and method for sterilizing and storage of laboratory consumables" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,263, issued on April 1, was assigned to GRENOVA INC. (Richmond, Va.).

"Device and method for sterilizing and storage of laboratory consumables" was invented by Ali Safavi (Richmond, Va.) and Thomas Patrick Finnigan (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sterilizing storage device may include a housing defining an interior chamber and having an opening defined in the housing to enable access to the interior chamber, the interior chamber divided into a plurality of storage compartments, each storage compartment of the plurality of storage compartments configured to slidably receive a carrier holding a plurality of laboratory c...