US Patent Issued to EMD Millipore on March 31 for "Removal tool for extracting a sample well comb from electrophoretic gels" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,923, issued on March 31, was assigned to EMD Millipore Corp. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Removal tool for extracting a sample well comb from electrophoretic gels" was invented by Kurt E. Greenizen (Atkinson, N.H.), Ryan Amara (Tewksbury, Mass.), Christopher A. Scott (Westford, Mass.), Paul Sydlowski (Danvers, Mass.), Michael Miller (North Andover, Mass.) and Kelly Wolfe (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A removal tool for sample well combs that is configured to aid in the extraction of a sample well comb from an electrophoresis gel. The removal tool may be either removably coupled to the sample well comb or may be permanent...