US Patent Issued to Merck Patent on July 22 for "Method and device for the provision of a sample" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,562, issued on July 22, was assigned to Merck Patent GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Method and device for the provision of a sample" was invented by Sarah Heub (Lausanne, Switzerland), Aurele Horisberger (Chavannes-Pres-Renens, Switzerland), Younouss Faye (Estavayer-le-Lac, Switzerland), Jean-Baptiste Orhan (Orbe, Switzerland) and Olivier Marti (Essertines-sur-Yverdon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for preparing a sample of a specimen to be analysed from a thin-layer plate in thin-layer chromatography. The sample is removed from a surface of the thin-layer plate by means of a blade disposed at a receivi...