US Patent Issued to SMARTFREEZ, LDA on June 24 for "Insulator for preventing container damage and rupture caused by freezing of aqueous solutions containing biological materials" (Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,532, issued on June 24, was assigned to SMARTFREEZ, LDA (Porto Salvo, Portugal).

"Insulator for preventing container damage and rupture caused by freezing of aqueous solutions containing biological materials" was invented by Rui De Brito Estrela (Lisbon, Portugal), Andreia Filipa Silvestre Duarte (Sacavem, Portugal) and Pedro Gil Sena Rego (Lisbon, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a system for freezing, transporting, storing and thawing aqueous solutions of biological materials, in particular those used in chemical and pharmaceutical processes. In particular, this disclosure relates to ice-crust atte...