US Patent Issued to Beckman Coulter on Oct. 21 for "Methods and systems for picking and placing vessels and for aligning an instrument" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,435, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Beckman Coulter Inc. (Brea, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for picking and placing vessels and for aligning an instrument" was invented by Jon Lindquist (Coon Rapids, Minn.), Kevin Nowak (Waconia, Minn.), John Moyer (Delano, Minn.), Creigh Thompson (Chaska, Minn.), Steven Alseth (Cologne, Minn.), Nicholas Hofmann (Waconia, Minn.), Robert Torney (Chanhassen, Minn.) and Vladimir Goldman (Bloomington, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gripper assembly (20) includes a cylinder (22), a deformable gripping portion (210), a piston (24), and an ejector (260). The gripper assembly is suitable for pi...