US Patent Issued to Thermo Scientific Portable Analytical Instruments on July 8 for "Self centering vial holder for immersion probes" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,232, issued on July 8, was assigned to Thermo Scientific Portable Analytical Instruments Inc. (Tewksbury, Mass.).

"Self centering vial holder for immersion probes" was invented by Andrew Leoni (Billerica, Mass.), Michael Dugas (Londonderry, N.H.), Sue Woods (Sutton, Mass.), Eden Couillard (Tewksbury, Mass.), Nimesh Khadka (Dracut, Mass.) and Eric Martin (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holder is described. The holder is for a sample vial and includes a base and a cap, where the holder and cap include one or more materials that are opaque or optically black. The holder includes an interior space for placement of the via...