US Patent Issued to TMRW Life Sciences on Jan. 20 for "Systems, apparatus and methods to pick and/or place specimen containers" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,318, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TMRW Life Sciences Inc. (New York).

"Systems, apparatus and methods to pick and/or place specimen containers" was invented by James Norman Craven (Ely, Great Britain) and Ian James Riley (Middlesbrough, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, device and method to pick and/or place specimen containers may include a pick and/or place head, a first secondary reservoir, and optionally a second secondary reservoir which hold cryogenic fluid in a liquid form, above a main reservoir of cryogenic liquid, to cool the pick and/or place head and/or to cool or recharge the specimen container...