US Patent Issued to TMRW LIFE SCIENCES on July 8 for "Handling and tracking of biological specimens for cryogenic storage" (New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,716, issued on July 8, was assigned to TMRW LIFE SCIENCES INC. (New York).

"Handling and tracking of biological specimens for cryogenic storage" was invented by Brian Bixon (Jersey City, N.J.), Kathryn Go (Somerville, Mass.), Amit Gupta (Jersey City, N.J.), Benjamin Harlow (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Alan Murray (New York) and Tim Sharp (Farmingdale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biological specimen of a subject is handled and tracked for a procedure involving that specimen. Prior to initiation of the procedure, a first procedure data structure (PDS) is generated. The first PDS binds an identifier corresponding to the subject with an in...