US Patent Issued to GEN-PROBE on March 31 for "Systems and methods for capacitive fluid level detection, and handling containers" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. RE50,846, issued on March 31, was assigned to GEN-PROBE Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for capacitive fluid level detection, and handling containers" was invented by David Opalsky (San Diego), David Buse (San Diego), James T. Tuggle (San Diego), Alexander Navarro (San Diego), Patrick Sheehan (San Diego), Olaf Horger (Neuenburg, Germany) and Gabriel Gerlach (Straubenhardt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid container holder includes a body having a receptacle configured to receive a container. The body has a conductive outer surface for connection to an electrical ground or voltage source, and the holder is not formed so...