ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,017, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ALOIS DATA GMBH (Hannover, Germany).

"Reaction vessel" was invented by Thorsten Luhrs (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a vessel for use in the analysis of samples comprising a housing, a lid closing the first end section of the housing, a stator arranged inside the housing for receiving a rotor, the rotor and the stator being spaced by a ring-shaped gap of constant radius, a shaft having a first end to which a magnetic shaft drive is fixed and an opposite second end covered by the rotor, wherein the shaft is run in a first bearing that is arranged on ...