US Patent Issued to GEN-PROBE on Aug. 4 for "Automated sample handling instrumentation, systems, processes, and methods" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,111, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GEN-PROBE Inc. (San Diego).

"Automated sample handling instrumentation, systems, processes, and methods" was invented by Rolf Silbert (Del Mar, Calif.), David Opalsky (San Diego), David Aaron Buse (San Diego), Robert J. Rosati (Carlsbad, Calif.), Olev Tammer (New York), Richard Capella (San Diego) and Matthias Merten (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample processing station includes two or more container holders on a platform that is rotatable about a central axis of rotation. Each holder is configured to rotate about a secondary axis of rotation. The station includes a capping/decapp...