US Patent Issued to ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS on Dec. 9 for "Chute arrangement and cap-removal apparatus" (German, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,076, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS INC. (Indianapolis).

"Chute arrangement and cap-removal apparatus" was invented by Daniel Gomez Toro (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Marius Kees (Weinheim, Germany), Lay-ying Tan (Bayan Lepas Penang, Malaysia) and Sabine Benz (Erzhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a chute arrangement for a cap-removal apparatus, the cap removal apparatus being configured to remove caps from sample containers, the chute arrangement comprising a chute for transporting removed caps through a transport space of the chute arrangement, a sensor for detecti...