ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,202, issued on March 17, was assigned to ANDREAS HETTICH GmbH Co. KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Insert for a centrifuge rotor having lubricant-free bearing" was invented by Thomas Schmal (Emmingen, Germany), Marcellus Geiselmann (Tuttlingen, Germany) and Klaus-Guenter Eberle (Tuttlingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insert (10) for a rotor (14), which rotates about a rotor axis (12), of a centrifuge (16) incorporating a housing (30) having at least one container for bags, in particular blood bags, that comprises a slider (66) that cooperates with a drive, a rotatable spindle nut (62) and a spindle (64), wherein the spindle...