ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,408, issued on May 6, was assigned to Life Technologies Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Life Technologies Holdings PTE Ltd. (Singapore).

"Electrophoresis and electrotransfer devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Marie Murakami (San Diego), Kyle Bulloch (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.), Neil Olson (San Diego), Ross Winnick (San Diego), Wei Fuh Teo (Johor, Malaysia) and Michael Thacker (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems are provided for gel electrophoresis and electrotransfer that comprise one or more chambers that can removably and interchangeably receive either an electrophoresis cassette, or an electrotransfer cassette...