US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics on Feb. 17 for "Lysis devices having a piezo element and methods" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,803, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Lysis devices having a piezo element and methods" was invented by Jeffrey R. Jasperse (Newton, Mass.), Peter Paulicka (Forchheim, Germany) and Paul Benson (Quincy, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lysis device including a sample vessel, at least one piezo element, and a controller is disclosed. The sample vessel has a microchannel formed therein. The sample vessel has at least one port extending through a surface to the microchannel. The piezo element is attached to the surface of the sample vessel. The controller has logic to cause ...