US Patent Issued to Copan Italia on Feb. 10 for "Device and method for automatic processing of culture plates for microbiological samples" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,884, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Copan Italia S.p.A. (Brescia, Italy).

"Device and method for automatic processing of culture plates for microbiological samples" was invented by Daniele Triva (Bovezzo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic processing device of culture plates including a support frame; a slide for removably housing a culture plate and movably mounted on the support frame selectively displaceable between a first loading position, a plurality of image-acquiring positions, and a first unloading position; a camera of a linear type, provided with a telecentric optic and a trilinear sensor, and arranged t...