US Patent Issued to Bio-Rad Laboratories on May 19 for "Bottle pressurization delivery system" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,602, issued on May 19, was assigned to Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (Hercules, Calif.).

"Bottle pressurization delivery system" was invented by Nathan Wrench (Swaffham Prior, Great Britain), William Mainwaring-Burton (Cambridge, Great Britain), Chris Butcher (Pleasant Hill, Calif.) and Nick Harrison (Oakington, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container assembly for use with a high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) instrument is disclosed, in which the container assembly, when coupled to a source of pressurized gas, provides fluid medium to the HPLC instrument at positive pressure. The container assembly has an external...