ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,043, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to B MEDICAL SYSTEMS S.A.R.L. (Hosingen, Luxembourg).

"Medical contact shock freezer" was invented by Kevin Laville (Wahlhausen, Luxembourg), Imane Hajji (Ettelbruck, Luxembourg) and Uwe Schramer (Irrel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical contact shock freezer (10) adapted for fast freezing a plurality of individual bags containing a medical liquid, notably blood plasma, the medical contact shock freezer comprising: -a first pair of freezing plates (11), at least one of the freezing plates of the first pair of freezing plates being moveable between i) a loading position of the freezing...