US Patent Issued to Roche Diagnostics Operations on July 1 for "Positioning of a needle-like component in a mass spectrometry system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,666, issued on July 1, was assigned to Roche Diagnostics Operations Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Positioning of a needle-like component in a mass spectrometry system" was invented by Stefan Quint (Munich) and Florian Schweinberger (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaging for a needle-like component of a mass spectrometry (MS) system is provided. The packaging includes a receptacle configured for storing the needle-like component in a secured position inside the receptacle. The packaging further comprises an actuator configured to move the needle-like component from the secured position inside the receptacle to a mounting position i...