ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,520, issued on June 30, was assigned to DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"System and method for disposing of a reaction vessel of a mass spectrometry system" was invented by Aaron Stella (Concord, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analyzer and sample handling system suitable for retrieving and processing a sample housed within a suitably configured reaction vessel, and then discarding the used reaction vessel by vertically or axially pushing downward on the vessel supported in a suitably configured tray with a pressing member that forms part of an autosampler assembly are disclosed herein."

The patent was fi...