ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,693, issued on May 19, was assigned to Retsch GmbH (Haan, Germany).

"Device module for a laboratory device and method for temperature-control of a laboratory device" was invented by Zilan Orhan (Witten, Germany) and Uwe Orth (Monschau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device module for a laboratory device is shown and described. The device module has at least one temperature control medium connection for connecting the device module, as required, to a temperature control medium supply of, in particular, a liquid or gaseous temperature control medium, at least one line connection for connecting, as required, to at least one sup...