ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,160, issued on July 15, was assigned to MULTIPLY LABS INC. (San Francisco).
"Apparatus for facilitating automated loading and unloading consumable kit to cell processing instrument" was invented by Dorothy Szymkiewicz (San Francisco) and Sebastien Wah (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a cartridge for holding a consumable kit and a dock for holding an instrument. The cartridge includes first docking members and first locking members, and the dock includes second docking members and second locking members. The first and second docking members are removably coupled to each other, establishing a single d...