US Patent Issued to IMV TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 4 for "Support element for a plurality of animal semen packaging straws and assembly comprising said support element" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,896, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to IMV TECHNOLOGIES (Saint Ouen sur Iton, France).

"Support element for a plurality of animal semen packaging straws and assembly comprising said support element" was invented by Eric Schmitt (Villaines-la-Juhel, France), Jean-Louis Douesnel (Breteuil-sur-Iton, France) and Jean-Charles Gorges (Chenay, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support element for a plurality of packaging straws, the support element comprising a plate (31) and two flanges (37) rigidly connected to said plate (31) and comprising a fluted surface (53) having a plurality of similar grooves (36), each flange (37) comprising...