ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,932, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to EPPENDORF SE (Hamburg, Germany).

"Laboratory instrument, system and method for instrument-controlled treatment of at least one laboratory sample using at least one consumable" was invented by Wolfgang Goemann-Thoss (Hambrug, Germany), Wolf Wente (Hambrug, Germany), Andreas Thieme (Hambrug, Germany), Jan-Gerd Frerichs (Norderstedt, Germany), Christiane Markau (Hamburg, Germany) and Jan-Hendrik Hacker (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a laboratory instrument, a system and a method for the instrument-controlled treatment of at least one laboratory sample usi...