ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,405, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to BOTRISTA INC. (Dover, Del.).

"Fluid material dispensing apparatus for automatically discarding unqualified materials" was invented by Wu-Chou Kuo (San Francisco), Yu-Min Lee (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yu Wei Chen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A material dispensing device includes: a target nozzle for dispensing a target material to a target container; a pump arranged to operably extract the target material from the material container and to operably push the target material to flow toward the target nozzle; a material drainage port; a flow direction switch device, coupled with the tar...