ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,096, issued on April 1, was assigned to Myriad Women's Health Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Reagent delivery and waste management system" was invented by Kyle Allen Lapham (San Francisco), Peter Kingman Turner (Daly City, Calif.) and Nathan Phillip Eldridge (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reagent delivery systems, which can include a reagent trough and a pump system, are useful for delivering liquids to a laboratory workbench. Processing samples on the laboratory workbench can result in a large amount of liquid waste. Described herein are reagent troughs, pump systems, reagent delivery systems, waste management s...