ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,689, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to HAMILTON BONADUZ AG (Bonaduz, Switzerland) and BIOFLUIDIX GMBH (Freiburg, Germany).
"Liquid-metering device for ballistically discharging metered amounts in the nanoliter range, liquid-metering method and pipetting tip therefor" was invented by Jorg Pochert (Chur, Switzerland), Andreas Ernst (Bollschweil, Germany) and Nils Lass (Oberkirch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid-metering device for discharging metered liquid in the nanometer range, includes a pipetting-tip receiving device defining, at least in a metering-ready operating position of the liquid-metering device, a receivi...