ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,373, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Beckman Coulter Inc. (Brea, Calif.).
"Substance dispense evaluation system" was invented by Tadashi Haga (Shizuoka, Japan) and Tomohiko Takeuchi (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated analysis instrument operates to detect inadequate dispensation of a fluidic substance on a tray. The instrument includes an image capturing device to capture an image of at least a portion of the tray including a receptacle portion and a surrounding portion around the receptacle portion. The instrument then identifies the surrounding portion of the at least the portion of the tray in the image,...