ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,677, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Labcyte Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Thermal adapter for automated thermal cycling" was invented by Richard N. Ellson (Brea, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for processing samples in a multi-well reaction vessel can include inserting a multi-well reaction vessel into a heating chamber of a thermal cycler, enclosing the multi-well reaction vessel in the heating chamber, and compressing a bottom surface of the multi-well reaction vessel into a compliant thermally conductive insert to increase a thermal contact area between the bottom surface and the compliant thermally cond...