US Patent Issued to HAMILTON BONADUZ on March 24 for "Pipetting unit with capacitive liquid detection, combination of such a pipetting unit and a pipetting tip, and method for capacitively detecting pipetting liquid" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,936, issued on March 24, was assigned to HAMILTON BONADUZ AG (Bonaduz, Switzerland).

"Pipetting unit with capacitive liquid detection, combination of such a pipetting unit and a pipetting tip, and method for capacitively detecting pipetting liquid" was invented by Fridolin Gysel (Zwangiweg, Switzerland), Reto Ettinger (Uster, Switzerland) and Silvio Walpen (Thalwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pipetting unit (2) with capacitive liquid detection comprises: a pressure tube (10); a shield (12) disposed around the pressure tube (10); a coupling (14) for temporarily attaching a pipetting tip (4) to the pipetting unit (2)...