ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,514, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CELLSORTER KFT. (Budapest, Hungary).

"Piezoelectric micropipette" was invented by Balint Szabo (Budapest, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a piezoelectric micropipette, which comprises a capillary tube forming the pipette, and an expansion chamber connected to the capillary tube, the expansion chamber having a flexible element and being connected to a piezoelectric actuator. According to the invention the flexible element of the micropipette is arranged in the expansion chamber, and the flexible element is connected to a rigid displacing element, and a piezoelec...