ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,646, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Tecan Trading AG (Maennedorf, Switzerland).
"Virtual pipetting" was invented by Ronan Leboudec (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a control program for a laboratory automation device includes receiving configuration data of the laboratory automation device, generating a three-dimensional model of the components of the laboratory automation device from the configuration data, the three-dimensional model additionally including a virtual pipette; displaying the three-dimensional model with a virtual reality headset; receiving movement data of a motion sensing controll...