US Patent Issued to TMRW Life Sciences on March 25 for "Systems, apparatus and methods to pick and/or place specimen containers" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,399, issued on March 25, 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), Ian James Riley (Middlesbrough, Great Britain) and Matthew Watson (Marske by the Sea, 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. The system or device may include a mechanical pick and/or place head, or a vacuum-based pick and/or place head. The mechanical pick and/or place head may include a drive shaft with an engagement head to draw a single specimen cont...