ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,977, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ZYBIO INC. (Chongqing, China).

"Vacuum chamber and cabin door structure" was invented by Nengke Pan (Chongqing, China) and Yunfei Wang (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a cabin door structure including a sample inlet arranged on a top cover and a cabin door mounted on an outside of the sample inlet. The cabin door is provided with a protrusion, and the protrusion extends inwards into the sample inlet when the cabin door covering on the sample inlet. A distance from an inner surface of the protrusion to an inner surface of the top cover is less than a thickne...