ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,111, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (Hercules, Calif.).
"Liquid level determination" was invented by Adam Philip Lins (Martinez, Calif.), Glenn Leo Price (Martinez, Calif.) and Robert Alan Iovanni (Vallejo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a system and method for determining a liquid level in a container based on data extracted from a digital image of the container. An image capture apparatus captures an image of a container used to store liquid reagents used by analytical instruments to test patient samples. A controller receives the captured image and extracts an analysis region...