US Patent Issued to MiTeGen on Oct. 7 for "Serial synchrotron crystallography sample holding system" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,116, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MiTeGen LLC (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Serial synchrotron crystallography sample holding system" was invented by Robert E. Thorne (Ithaca, N.Y.), David Closs (Freeville, N.Y.) and Benjamin Apker (Barton, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixed target sample holder for serial synchrotron crystallography comprising goniometer compatible base, a carrier, a sample holding insert which can be placed into the carrier. The sample holing insert comprising fiducials and windows, wherein each of the windows are respectively configured to accept a sample. The windows can also have holes and texture within each wi...