US Patent Issued to GEN-PROBE on June 17 for "Scissors actuator configured to translate a support platform in either of opposed lateral directions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,163, issued on June 17, was assigned to GEN-PROBE Inc. (San Diego).

"Scissors actuator configured to translate a support platform in either of opposed lateral directions" was invented by Julian Groeli (San Diego) and Jin Chen (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scissors actuator is configured to translate a support platform in either of opposed lateral directions with respect to a base frame and includes a first arm, a second arm, wherein the first and second arms are rotatably connected at intermediate positions between their respective first and second ends, the first arm is pivotably attached at its first end to the...