ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,619, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to FreMon Scientific Inc. (La Jolla, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for thawing biological substances" was invented by Menachem Shavit (Haworth, N.J.) and Farideh Z. Bischoff (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods herein relate to controlling a temperature (e.g., thawing) of a low volume biological substance. In some variations, a container enclosure for use with a device configured to control a temperature of a biological substance may comprise an adapter configured to receive a container comprising the biological substance."

The patent was filed on March 15...