ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,976, issued on March 4, was assigned to AMETEK INC. (Berwyn, Pa.).
"Vial autoloader" was invented by Archibald Williams (Wareham, Mass.), Glen Johnson (Mesa, Ariz.), Isauro Amaro (Tempe, Ariz.), Jiangjiang Dai (Perrysburg, Ohio), Kai Johnstad (Cumberland, R.I.), James A. Salomon (Providence, R.I.), Christian Vezina (Levis, Canada) and Remi Deroche (Quebec, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autoloader is disclosed for staging samples in vials to be loaded automatically into an analyzer such as a moisture analyzer for moisture analysis. The analyzer uses vials to hold small amounts of sample materials. The autoloader holds the v...