US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on July 21 for "System and method for insect culture maintenance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,298, issued on July 21, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"System and method for insect culture maintenance" was invented by William Sullivan (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Reto Stamm (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Thomas Kornberg (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insect culture maintenance system includes a vial cap having a top wall and a side wall extending about the top wall that is configured to engage an open end of a vial such that the vial cap is supported on the vial. The side wall of the vial cap defines a tunnel that extends through the side wall. The tunnel is sealed by the via...