ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,589, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to RANDOX LABORATORIES LTD (Crumlin, Great Britain).
"Sterilisation assembly" was invented by Peter Fitzgerald (Crumlin, Great Britain), David Sloan (Crumlin, Great Britain), Martin Reid (Crumlin, Great Britain) and Stuart Jackson (Crumlin, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a sterilisation assembly for a molecular diagnostic assay analyse. The assembly comprising: an enclosure having a passage therethrough, the passage being arranged in use to allow an assay sample set to pass through the enclosure, the enclosure defining a barrier adapted in use to restrict fluid comm...