ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,142, issued on May 27, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Touchless package" was invented by Olga Schikurski (Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany), Lucas Serge (Wilmington, Del.), Qi Siegmundt-Pan (Karlsruhe, Germany), Michael Wherry (Santa Clara, Calif.), Thorsten Dressler (Mannheim, Germany), Daniela Loraing (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Thomas Dumoulin (Strasbourg, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A package (100), including a base (150) having at least one receptacle (151), in which the at least one receptacle (151) includes a first portion (154) having a first diameter (D1) and a second portion (152) having...