ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,225, issued on May 12, was assigned to Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (Hercules, Calif.).
"System and method for receiving and delivering a fluid for sample processing" was invented by Kalyan Handique (Hercules, Calif.) and Austin Payne (Hercules, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for receiving and delivering a fluid, the system comprising: a body configured to interface with an opening of a reservoir and defining: a protrusion defining a set position of the body relative to the reservoir; a wall extending from the protrusion; a receiving surface coupled to the wall and sloping from an apex to a nadir along a first ...