ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,639, issued on March 4, was assigned to STRATEC SE (Birkenfeld, Germany).
"Liquid handling in automated analyser systems" was invented by Thilo Habrich (Bad Wildbad, Germany), Harald Tahedl (Wimsheim, Germany) and Tobias Wienhold (Karlsruhe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the quality of a hose in an automated analyser system, comprising the steps of collecting data of a wash curve by measuring the light intensity through a hose with an optical sensor during washing of a hose; determining and recording the voltage changes related to changing light intensities; extracting an aspiration time and time for...