ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,568, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AS Stroemungstechnik GmbH (Ostfildern, Germany).

"Dispensing system and method of operating a dispensing system" was invented by Andreas Szeteli (Filderstadt, Germany) and Timo Steissliger (Reutlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a dispensing system (1) with at least one container (2) having a container opening (6), and a dispense head (4) mounted on a robot arm (11) of a robot (10). The dispense head (4) is automatically connected to the container opening (6) of the container by means of the robot (10), such that liquid (3) can be removed from the container (2...