US Patent Issued to Leica Biosystems Melbourne on April 22 for "Automated laboratory system resource allocation and utilization" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,035, issued on April 22, was assigned to Leica Biosystems Melbourne Pty Ltd (Mt. Waverly, Australia).

"Automated laboratory system resource allocation and utilization" was invented by Steven John Edwards (Sandringham, Australia) and Andreas Ernst (Glen Waverly, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for allocating processing resources in an automated laboratory system configured with processing units at which one or more activities are performed using one or more processing resources are provided. A scheduler component received receiving at least one order requiring the execution of one or more protocols on the a...