US Patent Issued to UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA on Feb. 17 for "Method for the vitrification of human semen and portable kit for the application of said method" (Spanish, Chilean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,886, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA (Temuco, Chile).

"Method for the vitrification of human semen and portable kit for the application of said method" was invented by Raul Segundo Sanchez Gutierrez (Temuco, Chile), Mabel Andrea Schulz Rubilar (Temuco, Chile), Juan Jesus Alvarez Gonzalez (A Coruna, Spain), Albert Obradors Cherta (Figueres, Spain) and Enrique Oquinena Muguerza (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for human sperm vitrification is disclosed, which includes providing liquefied human sperm; having a vitrification medium, where the vitrification medium has (a) a sper...