US Patent Issued on Oct. 27 for "Methods of transporting and processing physiological samples with a centrifuge-equipped unmanned aerial vehicle" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,003, issued on Oct. 27.

"Methods of transporting and processing physiological samples with a centrifuge-equipped unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Ganapathi Pamula (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample processing unit (SPU)-equipped drone for transporting and processing biological materials and method of using same is disclosed. In some embodiments, the presently disclosed SPU-equipped drone and method provide a drone equipped to carry an SPU and wherein the SPU may include a centrifuge arranged inside a temperature-controlled chamber and wherein the centrifuge may be used to process biological materials at the s...