ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,381, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to EPPENDORF SE (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method for operating a piston-stroke pipette, piston-stroke pipette, data processing device and system" was invented by Benjamin Forthmann (Hamburg, Germany), Philipp Cloer (Hamburg, Germany), Jens Kleemann (Hamburg, Germany) and Torsten Krauss (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method, a computer program and a system for operating a hand-held, computer-controlled piston-stroke pipette as well as a corresponding piston-stroke pipette as well a data processing device cooperating with that, wherein a precise pipetting of l...