US Patent Issued to Merck Patent on Aug. 11 for "Rack for holding a plurality of petri-dishes and transport packaging with the rack" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,982, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Merck Patent GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Rack for holding a plurality of petri-dishes and transport packaging with the rack" was invented by Stephane Olivier (Molsheim, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rack for holding a plurality of petri-dishes, containing a plate-like main body with a plurality of adjacent and spaced apart holding portions each configured to receive and support, in a substantially horizontal orientation that is substantially perpendicular to a plane of the plate-like main body, a petri-dish, wherein each holding portion includes positioning features for positioning th...