US Patent Issued to Micromass UK on July 22 for "Holder for a capillary triggered to hold when a capillary is inserted" (British, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,036, issued on July 22, was assigned to Micromass UK Ltd. (Wilmslow, Great Britain).

"Holder for a capillary triggered to hold when a capillary is inserted" was invented by Pham Hoang Vu Ngo (Singapore), Arvind Rangan (Singapore), Veronica Lum (Singapore), Carl Chen (Singapore), Nicola Lumley (Wilmslow, Great Britain) and David Douce (Wilmslow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holder for a capillary, comprising: a housing having a passage to receive a capillary; and a clamping mechanism configurable between: an engaged state in which the clamping mechanism is configured to retain a capillary receivable in the passage in...