ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,833, issued on April 8, was assigned to LTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme AG (Andernach, Germany).
"Microarray receptacle" was invented by Michael Kulik (Urmitz, Germany), Thorsten Fehr (Andernach, Germany) and Stefan Erlhofer (Kempenich, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microarray receptacle which has a first side and a second side. Furthermore, the microarray receptacle includes a carrier structure for connecting the microarray receptacle to an application point. To the carrier structure there is connected a carrier surface which in turn is connected to a microarray. An articulation device is arranged between the carrier surface...