ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,523, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Seegene Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Thermal cycler comprising sample holder assembly" was invented by Young Wook Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Woo Kang (Seoul, South Korea) and Hye Jin Lee (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided a thermal cycler. In a case in which plurality of heat sinks participate in thermal control of a plurality of thermally independent sample holders for reliable nucleic acid reactions of the plurality of sample holder, a barrier is present between the adjacent heat sinks."

The patent was filed on March 18, 2020, under Application No. 17/439,88...