ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,390, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Muscle Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Pipette device and analysis device" was invented by Hirofumi Tamai (Osaka, Japan), Hiroshi Oku (Osaka, Japan) and Yuki Okabe (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a pipette device that achieves both suction and discharge of a large amount of fluid and high-precision discharge of a minute amount of fluid. The pipette device includes: a first syringe 30 that is capable of suctioning fluid and is capable of discharging fluid with a predetermined discharge precision; a second syringe 40 that is capable of suctioning fluid and is capable of dischargin...