US Patent Issued to Roche Diagnostics Operations on Sept. 30 for "Apparatus for removing a cap closing a laboratory sample container and laboratory automation system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,492, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Roche Diagnostics Operations Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Apparatus for removing a cap closing a laboratory sample container and laboratory automation system" was invented by Marius Kraetschmer (Kirdhheim unter Teck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for removing a cap closing a laboratory sample container, the apparatus comprising a cap gripper being adapted to grip a cap to be removed and being adapted to remove the cap being gripped from the laboratory sample container, a displaceable chute comprising a cap inlet, a linear guide defining a linear trajectory, wherein the displaceabl...