US Patent Issued to BD KIESTRA on March 11 for "Device for holding articles to remove the packaging therefrom" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,874, issued on March 11, was assigned to BD KIESTRA B.V. (Drachten, Netherlands).

"Device for holding articles to remove the packaging therefrom" was invented by Jurjen Sinnema (Joure, Netherlands) and Roger Petri (Assen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holder for consumables for use in an analyzer is disclosed. The holder has one or more receptacles for receiving a stack of consumables. The consumables are wrapped in packaging and are placed in the holder as a stack of packaged consumables. The receptacles have a height sufficient to receive the stack of consumable. The receptacles have an opening miming along the side...