US Patent Issued to Azenta US on May 19 for "Automated vault module" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,531, issued on May 19, was assigned to Azenta US Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Automated vault module" was invented by Etienne Croquette (Altrincham, Great Britain), Matteo F. Salvetti (Natick, Mass.) and Rhett Affleck (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cryogenic storage system provides automated storage and retrieval of samples in a cryogenic environment, as well as automated transfer of individual samples between cryogenic environments. Stored samples are maintained under a cryogenic temperature threshold, while also enabling access to the samples. The samples may be organized and tracked by scanning a barcode of each sample...