US Patent Issued to Waters Technologies on May 27 for "Modular sample preparation devices and methods" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,355, issued on May 27, was assigned to Waters Technologies Corp. (Milford, Mass.).

"Modular sample preparation devices and methods" was invented by Anna K. Boardman (Watertown, Mass.), Xiaoxiao Liu (Natick, Mass.), Micah Watt (Quincy, Mass.), Jonathan Belanger (Whitinsville, Mass.), Matthew A. Lauber (North Smithfield, R.I.), Michael Lavallee (Whitinsville, Mass.) and Wenhao Zhu (Natick, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a customizable sample preparation device (e.g., liquid sample preparation device, such as a purification, clean-up, or separation device). In particular, the present technology re...