US Patent Issued to Meridian LGH Holdings 2 on March 25 for "Sample preparation cartridges and apparatuses" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,581, issued on March 25, was assigned to Meridian LGH Holdings 2 LLC (Dallas).

"Sample preparation cartridges and apparatuses" was invented by Manojkumar M. Nair (Burlington, Mass.) and John Frederick Regan (Boxford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention includes sample preparation cartridges and apparatuses. The invention provides means for lysing and optionally selectively capturing at least one compound in a sample to purify, concentrate, and/or select for the at least one compound. The invention can be used in conjunction with a sample processing instrument to create a fully-automated or near-fully-automated sample ...