ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,987, issued on March 24, was assigned to DISPENDIX GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Carrier device for a dispensing device" was invented by Umair Mazhar (Stuttgart, Germany) and Tristan Ashman Hofle (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to carrier device (1) for a dispensing device (2), wherein the carrier device (1) comprises a plurality of holes (3) that are arranged along grid lines (4) of a Cartesian coordinate system (10) x,y-coordinate grid structure (5), a plurality of detection devices (6) for detecting whether a dispensed liquid falls through a hole (3), wherein the detection device (6) compris...