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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2015
Muffin Incorporated, West Lafayette, IN (US);
William J. Havel, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Neal E. Fearnot, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Peter S. McKinnis, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Richard B. Sisken, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Charles Leland Baxter, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Muffin Incorporated, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Abstract
Described in one aspect is a multi-cell or multi-chambered container for sealing various materials such as therapeutic or diagnostic agents, animal or human tissue, tissue samples, specimens, blood, genetic material, or any other material. The container includes seals formed by folding the wall of the elongate body transverse to the interior of the elongate body and maintaining the folded wall portions adjacent one another or joining them together. In another aspect, the container disclosed may be made according to a method involving creating multiple seals at various locations along the elongate body thus creating sealed voids or cells between the seals within the elongate body.