ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,649, issued on May 26, was assigned to BlueCat Solutions GmbH (Neudrossenfeld, Germany).

"Collecting device for a reaction vessel unit and reaction vessel unit" was invented by Wolfgang Mann (Neudrossenfeld, Germany) and Frank Feist (Lebanon, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a collecting device (30) for a reaction vessel unit (21), which has a plurality of reaction vessels (37), wherein the reaction vessels (37) each have an opening (38), which lie in a common opening plane (39), wherein the collecting device (30) has a collecting plate (31), which is designed in such a way that it can be arranged or is arr...