ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,125, issued on July 29, was assigned to EQUASHIELD MEDICAL LTD (Migdal Tefen, Israel).

"Fluid transfer station in a robotic pharmaceutical preparation system" was invented by Eric Shem-Tov (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Marino Kriheli (Savion, Israel), Boaz Slav (Haifa, Israel), Raanan Tavor (Yuvalim, Israel) and Gonen Daskal (Akersberga, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system and method are provided for transfer of fluid between a container accessible via a container-septum and a fluid transfer assembly accessible via a fluid transfer connector septum. The robotic system includes a controller and a manipulator controllabl...