US Patent Issued to The General Hospital, Trustees Of Tufts College on July 28 for "High aspect ratio devices and methods for vitrification of biological samples by rapid cooling" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,471, issued on July 28, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston) and Trustees Of Tufts College (Medford, Mass.).

"High aspect ratio devices and methods for vitrification of biological samples by rapid cooling" was invented by Derin Sevenler (Charlestown, Mass.), Rebecca Sandlin (Melrose, Mass.), Mehmet Toner (Charlestown, Mass.), Giovanni Widmer (Newton, Mass.), Saul Tzipori (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Justyna Jaskiewicz (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of bulk cryopreservation of C. parvum oocysts by vitrification using high aspect ratio cryopreservation devices are disclosed. Cryopreserved oocysts exhibit high ...