ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,644, issued on May 27, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).
"Dispensing device and dispensing method" was invented by Homare Kuribayashi (Ikeda, Japan), Masato Hanamura (Shiojiri, Japan), Koki Yamakawa (Chino, Japan), Koji Imamura (Shiojiri, Japan), Hiroyuki Kanai (Shiojiri, Japan) and Makihito Hori (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dispensing device that dispenses a liquid sample with a target weight x (in grams) includes: a pipette that discharges the liquid sample into a vessel; and a controller that controls the pipette. The controller performs: first liquid discharge processing in which the controller disch...