ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,431, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to BlueCatBio GMBH (Neudrossenfeld, Germany).

"Discharge device for a reaction vessel unit, centrifuge and method for cleaning a reaction vessel unit" was invented by Wolfgang Heimberg (Ebersberg, Germany), Frank Feist (Lebanon, N.H.) and Wolfgang Mann (Neudrossenfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a discharge device (30) for a reaction vessel unit (21) which has a plurality of reaction vessels (37), wherein the reaction vessels (37) each have an opening (38) which lie in a common opening plane (39), wherein the discharge device (30) has a discharge plate (31) which...