US Patent Issued to LABORATORY CORPORATION OF AMERICA HOLDINGS on July 1 for "Active biological sample processing and thermal management devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,812, issued on July 1, was assigned to LABORATORY CORPORATION OF AMERICA HOLDINGS (Burlington, N.C.).

"Active biological sample processing and thermal management devices" was invented by Ulrich Schaff (Livermore, Calif.), Angela Le (San Jose, Calif.), Tifany Pan (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Kyungjin Hong (Livermore, Calif.) and Clara Neal (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments for a portable and compact centrifugation and thermal management system capable of separating and transporting biological samples while maintaining sample quality for periods of shipment time are described. A compact, automatic centrifuge holdi...