US Patent Issued to MiTeGen on June 17 for "Humidified sample preparation station for serial crystallography" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,148, issued on June 17, was assigned to MiTeGen LLC (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Humidified sample preparation station for serial crystallography" was invented by Richard Jayne (Lansing, N.Y.), David Closs (Freeville, N.Y.), Benjamin A. Apker (Barton, N.Y.) and Robert E. Thorne (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Humidified sample preparation station for serial crystallography according to one embodiment is a humidified enclosure that delivers relative humidities above 95% and preferably above 97% in standard operation, and that can allow microscope observation of samples within. Humidified sample preparation station for serial crystall...