ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,760, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Roche Molecular Systems Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).
"Method to monitor and control the temperature of a sample holder of a laboratory instrument" was invented by Sven Ebert (Rotkreuz, Switzerland), Paul Federer (Rotkreuz, Switzerland), Pius Hermann (Rotkreuz, Switzerland) and Stefan Vollenweider (Rotkreuz, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to monitor and control the temperature of a sample holder of a laboratory instrument during execution of a temperature profile on the sample holder is presented. The laboratory instrument comprises a sample holder with high temperature unifor...