ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,315, issued on March 17, was assigned to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).

"Interface system and corresponding method" was invented by Michael Krummen (Bad Zwischenahn, Germany) and Daniel Felsmann (Stuhr, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method performed in an interface system, the interface system comprising a reactor and a reaction-product-separator, the method comprising: (a) guiding a liquid containing analytes to and through the reactor and causing a component comprised by the analytes to react to a reaction product in the reactor, to thus create a post-reactor ...