US Patent Issued to Bio-Rad Laboratories on May 12 for "PCR sample block temperature uniformity" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,226, issued on May 12, was assigned to Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (Hercules, Calif.).

"PCR sample block temperature uniformity" was invented by Garret Bautista (El Cerrito, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample plate for a thermal cycler suitable for performing a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) procedure includes a base plate and a number of reaction vessels extending upward from the base plate. The sample plate further includes a vertical wall surrounding an outer perimeter defined by the reaction vessels. The vertical wall can be a continuation vertical wall, an intermittent vertical wall, or a perforated vertical wall. The ...