US Patent Issued to LIFE TECHNOLOGIES on Jan. 13 for "Method and apparatus for automated sample preparation" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,670, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to LIFE TECHNOLOGIES Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for automated sample preparation" was invented by Kristopher Barbee (San Francisco), Ray Wheeling (Nevada City, Calif.), Nicholas Peter Bajka (Meadow Vista, Calif.) and Maximilian Carpino (Guilford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teachings provide apparatuses and methods for automated handling of samples, e.g., biological or chemical samples. The apparatuses and the methods of the present teachings allow automated performance of various sample manipulation steps without manual intervention. In a preferred embodi...