US Patent Issued to Mettler-Toledo on Sept. 15 for "Sample carrier, sample storages, lifting forks and related systems for sample handling and performing thermomechanical analysis of a sample" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,554, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Mettler-Toledo GmbH (Greifensee, Switzerland).

"Sample carrier, sample storages, lifting forks and related systems for sample handling and performing thermomechanical analysis of a sample" was invented by Urs Joerimann (Bertschikon, Switzerland), Samuel Keller (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland), Jonas Langenegger (Effretikon, Switzerland), Michael Reber (Zurich), Fabian Schneider (Zurich, Switzerland), Urs Wuest (Hombrechtikon, Switzerland) and Gian Huber (Hinwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample carrier includes a bottom, at least one side wall, and a contact face for r...