US Patent Issued to Summa Finland on Sept. 15 for "Kit for holding sample" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,914, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Summa Finland Oy (Oulu, Finland).

"Kit for holding sample" was invented by Tommi Kinnunen (Helsinki), Paavo Pietola (Helsinki), Marko Makinen (Oulu, Finland) and Heikki Keranen (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a kit for holding samples with a casing having a first portion and a second portion. When the kit is in enclosed state, the first and second portions define closed space therebetween. A mattress having first part and second part holds a refrigerant therein. A temperature of the refrigerant lies within a predefined range of temperature. Stencil(s) having opening...