US Patent Issued to CORNING on Oct. 6 for "Biaxially oriented thermoplastic pipette, and method and apparatus for forming same" (Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,266, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Biaxially oriented thermoplastic pipette, and method and apparatus for forming same" was invented by John Claude Cadotte Jr. (Waterboro, Maine), Michael Kurt Schaefer (Gorham, Maine) and James Mark Seymour (Portland, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Unitary measuring pipettes include a tubular body of biaxially oriented thermoplastic material, together with size reduction, elimination, and/or reorientation of longitudinally spaced, raised circumferential witness features, to mitigate or avoid interference between such witness features and graduated volumetric ma...