ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,966, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ABLE Labs Inc. (Incheon, South Korea).

"Liquid handling system" was invented by Sang Shin (Incheon, South Korea), Nam Il Ko (Incheon, South Korea) and Sang Young Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated liquid handling system includes a transfer robot unit, a handling module, and a fixing unit which is coupled to a head of the robot unit and on which a pipette assembly is to be mounted, wherein the handling module is provided with a mounting part detachably mounted on the fixing unit. The fixing unit includes a body part, a fixing part hook formed at an upper p...