US Patent Issued to TECAN TRADING on May 20 for "Device and method for determining a position and/or an extension of a drop" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,083, issued on May 20, was assigned to TECAN TRADING AG (Mannedorf, Switzerland).

"Device and method for determining a position and/or an extension of a drop" was invented by Gerald Zerza (Salzburg, Austria), Josef Grassl (Schonau am Konigsee, Germany) and Alwin Schuller (Neumarkt am Wallersee, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for determining a position and/or an extension of a drop in a position determination space, where the device has a camera having an objective and a beam splitter in the recording area of the camera, and the device is designed in such a way that light coming from the position determination space c...