ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,772, issued on June 3, was assigned to Q-LINEA AB (Uppsala, Sweden).
"Analysis instrument and sample preparation cartridge" was invented by Anders Lind (Tarnsjo, Sweden), Carl Rosenfeld (Uppsala, Sweden), Henrik Soderstrom (Knivsta, Sweden), Jan Grawe (Uppsala, Sweden), Henrik Svanberg (Uppsala, Sweden) and Johan Skaborn (Uppsala, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analysis instrument includes a cartridge bay for receiving a sample preparation cartridge. The cartridge bay includes a controllable heater for heating a sample; a first temperature sensor for monitoring the temperature of the controllable heater; and a second tempera...