US Patent Issued to TMRW Life Sciences on May 6 for "Apparatus to facilitate transfer of biological specimens stored at cryogenic conditions" (California, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,816, issued on May 6, was assigned to TMRW Life Sciences Inc. (New York).

"Apparatus to facilitate transfer of biological specimens stored at cryogenic conditions" was invented by William Alan Blair (San Diego), Timothy Alan Sharp (Farmingdale, N.Y.), Amit Gupta (Jersey City, N.J.), Kathryn Josephine Go (Somerville, Mass.) and William Nicholas Garbarini Jr. (Cranford, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method facilitates transfers of specimen containers (e.g., vials with caps) between storage cassettes and carrier cassettes. The storage cassettes are designed to be stored in cryogenic refrigerators while the carrier cas...