ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,668, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Beckman Coulter Inc. (Brea, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for laboratory deck setup verification" was invented by Matthew S. Davis (Indianapolis), Yilin Liu-Leitke (Indianapolis), Rachel Ellen Moschell (Carmel, Ind.), Peter Robert Nei (Brownsburg, Ind.), John S. Snider (Brownsburg, Ind.) and Robert J. Zigon (Carmel, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laboratory workstation for preparing a sample according to a programmed protocol. The laboratory workstation may include a display device configured to display an instruction for loading a first item of labware onto a deck of the laboratory work...