US Patent Issued to Andrew Alliance on April 8 for "Devices and methods for programmable manipulation of pipettes" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,025, issued on April 8, was assigned to Andrew Alliance S.A. (Switzerland).

"Devices and methods for programmable manipulation of pipettes" was invented by Piero Zucchelli (Versonnex, France), Giorgio Horak (Geneva) and Antoine Jordan (Veyrier, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed generally to devices and methods for manipulating laboratory pipettes in a programmable manner. The present invention is directed to an apparatus and methods for allowing a user to instruct the device to perform a specific process; identifying the type, location and identity of the consumables to be used; manipulating...