ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,596, issued on July 29, was assigned to MILKIFY INC. (Houston).

"Pre-lyophilization thermally conductive envelopment and dimensional homogenization of thermally solid biological fluids" was invented by Berkley Kristina Johnson Luck (Houston) and Pedro Rossi Silva (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and associated methods relate to lyophilizing a solid phase composition (SPC). In an illustrative example, the SPC is received in a frozen state in a first packaging. The SPC may be, for example, transferred into a second packaging having a thermally conductive layer, mechanically distributed to a predetermined maximum thickn...