US Patent Issued to Azenta US on March 17 for "Hand-held capper/decapper device and method" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,094, issued on March 17, was assigned to Azenta US Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Hand-held capper/decapper device and method" was invented by Hans Harzl (Manchester, Great Britain), Richard Laight (Lindley, Great Britain), Sofia P. Maria (Didsbury, Great Britain) and Robert Gee (Preston, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a hand-held capper/decapper device, cap drivers in an array are driven by an array of rotary motors that drive the cap drivers in forward and reverse rotary directions to cap and decap caps from threaded receptacles. A common linear drive drives ejector pins through the centers of cap drivers to eject cap...