ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,127, issued on April 14, was assigned to NEXPRING US OPCO INC. (Beverly, Mass.).
"Vitrification device and method for preparing sample" was invented by Sabrina C. Lin (Santa Ana, Calif.) and Hsiao-Tzu Ni (Santa Ana, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are devices and related methods for rapidly freezing a sample using, for example, liquid nitrogen. The device includes an input portion with an input port, a sample chamber, a waste reservoir in fluid communication with the sample chamber, and a filtering mechanism that selectively allows a fluid introduced through the input port to pass through the sample chamber and...