ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,694, issued on July 29, was assigned to Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Grip detection system for liquid handling robot" was invented by Adam Wolf (Lexington, Mass.) and Paul Majneri (Lexington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid handling robot has a worktable that supports a rack holding a set of pipette tips. The liquid handling robot also has an arm that is operably suspended above the worktable, where the arm includes a tip receiver that is configured to engage the set of pipette tips. A controller of the liquid handling robot is configured to raise the tip receiver away from the worktable to withdraw t...