US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics on Sept. 22 for "Rotor mixer for agitation of fluids during sample preparation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,145, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Rotor mixer for agitation of fluids during sample preparation" was invented by Alex Hofai Lee (Fremont, Calif.) and Daniel Chu (Hercules, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, multi-well plate and method for automated cell lysis and nucleic acid purification and processing. The plate includes a lysis well, at least one wash well, and an elution well. The apparatus includes a vertically aligned rotor mixer comprising a magnetic tip and actuators for moving the rotor mixer in a vertical and horizontal directions, to transfer ...