US Patent Issued to Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals Ireland on Dec. 9 for "Apparatus and method for detecting liquid level in a clear or partially clear container" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,330, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals Ireland Ltd. (Dublin).

"Apparatus and method for detecting liquid level in a clear or partially clear container" was invented by Scott I. Biba (Waunakee, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trap bowl is provided to accumulate liquid droplets from a filter, as a liquid content. The trap bowl includes a transparent vertical prism. The transparent vertical prism includes a face that forms a vertical transparent surface facing against a content of the section. The face can provide a first angle of total reflection when content of the section is a type of gas, and a seco...