ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,727, issued on July 1, was assigned to LEICA MIKROSYSTEME GMBH (Vienna).

"Control system for a liquid filling level and microscope stage including such a system" was invented by Siegfried Tanki (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling a filling level of a reservoir filled with a liquid includes the reservoir configured to be filled with the liquid at least up to a maximum filling level. The system also includes a probe including a probe body, at least a section of the probe body extending, in a height dimension of the reservoir, from a first position to a second position, the first position being lower than the ...