US Patent Issued to TECAN TRADING on July 29 for "Mixing apparatus, mixing system and method for mixing substances in closed containers" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,512, issued on July 29, was assigned to TECAN TRADING AG (Mannedorf, Switzerland).

"Mixing apparatus, mixing system and method for mixing substances in closed containers" was invented by Dominic Erb (Winterthur, Switzerland), Philipp Riedel (Zurich), Christian Strebel (Nanikon, Switzerland), Gero Fehr (Lachen, Switzerland), Klaus Lun (Pfaffikon SZ, Switzerland) and Christoph Karthaus (Jona, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mixing apparatus containing a drive unit having a drive and a shaft that is pivotable about a pivot axis and is operatively connected to the drive. A pivotable receptacle is arranged on the shaft, where...