ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,552, issued on July 29, was assigned to GEN-PROBE Inc. (San Diego).
"Method for capacitive fluid level detection" was invented by Trung Pham (Chula Vista, Calif.), Jerry W. Jeffers II (San Diego), David Buse (San Diego) and Steven G. Grubbs (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fluid handling that includes reading information about a receptacle holder with an RFID reader and transmitting the information from an RFID transponder disposed on a first body of the receptacle holder that supports a fluid-containing receptacle. This information is used to align a robotic fluid transfer device with the first fluid-containing...