ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,464, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to WALDORF TECHNIK GmbH (Engen, Germany).
"Vario-tip system" was invented by Ralf Fuhrmann (Tengen/Weil, Germany) and Christian Boos (Gundelfingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a packaging method and to an associated packaging device (1) for packaging injection-molded plastic parts (2), which are pipette tips or medical reaction vessels, the injection-molded plastic parts (2) being arranged in cavity-pure subgroups (6) and then subjected to lateral inspection sub-subgroup (10) per sub-subgroup (10)."
The patent was filed on Sept. 12, 2023, under Application No. ...