ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,889, issued on June 3, was assigned to Nagasaki University (Nagasaki, Japan).
"Storage container" was invented by Masafumi Uematsu (Nagasaki, Japan) and Takashi Kitaoka (Nagasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage container for storing a cornea specimen in which an endothelium and an epithelium of a cornea can be immersed and stored in different storage solutions. The storage container 1A has a specimen-supporting portion 3A containing a first cornea exposure portion 31a and a second cornea exposure portion 31b that expose a cornea part 101, the specimen-supporting portion supporting a scleral rim 102 at an outer circumfe...