ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,293, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TECAN TRADING AG (Mannedorf, Switzerland).
"Iterative liquid aspiration" was invented by Matthias Dzung (Erlenbach, Switzerland), Patrick Kinney (Hayward, Calif.), Philipp Ott (Steg, Switzerland), Carsten Hase (Zurich, Switzerland), Andreas Schenk (Furstenbrunn, Austria), David Papencordt (Hallein, Austria), Philipp Riedel (Zurich, Switzerland) and Thomas Geiges (Mannedorf, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for aspirating a first liquid medium of two liquid media of different density from a sample container comprises: lowering a pipette of the laboratory automation device into...