US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security on Oct. 14 for "Media holders with cross members for sample preparation" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,848, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security (Washington).

"Media holders with cross members for sample preparation" was invented by Joseph A. DiCicco (Cape May Court House, N.J.), Andrew Horan (Mays Landing, N.J.) and John Brady (Medford, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media holder can be used for preparing samples. The media holder can comprise a base, a pair of walls extending upwardly from the base, and a plurality of transverse members positioned on and coupled to a respective upper end of each of the walls. Each of the transverse...