ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,455, issued on March 11, was assigned to Artificial Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Adapting robotic protocols between labs" was invented by Jeff Washington (Round Rock, Texas), Geoffrey J. Budd (Redwood City, Calif.), Nikhita Singh (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jake Sganga (Los Angeles) and Alexander Li Honda (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lab system accesses a first protocol for performance by a first robot in a first lab. The first protocol includes a set of steps, each associated with an operation, reagent, and equipment. For each of one or more steps, the lab system modifies the step by: (1) identifying one or more repla...