US Patent Issued to ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS on March 18 for "Module for an automated laboratory system" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,535, issued on March 18, was assigned to ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS INC. (Indianapolis).

"Module for an automated laboratory system" was invented by Claudio Cherubini (Cham, Switzerland), Andreas Drechsler (Baar, Switzerland), Reto Huesser (Hagendorn, Switzerland) and Ivan Heinzer (Brunnen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A module for an automated laboratory system is disclosed. The module comprises a module connector configured to releasably connect to a component of the automated laboratory system, a detector at least configured to detect at least one component marker located at the component so as to obtain position ...