US Patent Issued to Eppendorf on Dec. 9 for "Method for operating an item of laboratory equipment cooled by means of a flammable refrigerant" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,854, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Eppendorf SE (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method for operating an item of laboratory equipment cooled by means of a flammable refrigerant" was invented by Rene Kreher (Leipzig, Germany), Falk Binder (Hamburg, Germany) and Thomas Sporn (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an item of laboratory equipment cooled using a flammable refrigerant. The method includes ventilating an interior of the cooled laboratory equipment with the aid of a fan, wherein control of the fan is carried out over a first time period by a first control device; checking, with the aid of a first prede...