US Patent Issued to BioLife Solutions on March 24 for "Systems, devices, and methods for automated thawing of bag-format storage vessels" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,833, issued on March 24, was assigned to BioLife Solutions Inc. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Systems, devices, and methods for automated thawing of bag-format storage vessels" was invented by Brian Schryver (Redwood City, Calif.), Scott Comiso (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Thomas McPherson (San Rafael, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses sample thawing devices, systems, and methods, that are configured to take bag-format sample vessels, referred to as "cryobags", and to thaw the contents of such cryobags. The contents of such cryobags are samples with cells, and the thawing of such samples is based on the temperat...