ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,978, issued on March 4, was assigned to TTP Plc (Royston, Great Britain).
"Sample preparation system" was invented by Piers Sebastian Harding (Royston, Great Britain) and Gary Keith Jepps (Royston, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a sample preparation device comprising a sample preparation vessel and a bead manipulation mechanism for manipulating sample preparation beads in the vessel. The bead manipulation mechanism comprises: one or more magnets arranged to produce a magnetic field for manipulating, in use, one or more beads in the vessel. Each magnet is attached to a support frame by a biasing support...