ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,915, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to CYTENA GMBH (Freiburg, Germany).

"Method for determining a lower boundary surface and/or an upper boundary surface of a liquid located in a container" was invented by Jonas Folling (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for determining a lower boundary surface and/or an upper boundary surface of a liquid in a container, in which illumination light is emitted that is focused by an objective lens at a focal point, wherein a measurement signal reflected at the focal point is detected by a two-dimensional detection device arranged in an image plane of th...