ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,040, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MA Mircro Automation GmbH (St. Leon-Rot, Germany).
"Inspection system" was invented by Bodo Ergert (Heidelberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an inspection system for checking elongate workpieces (2), more particularly injection-moulded parts such as pipette tips, which have a workpiece longitudinal axis, comprising: (i) a holding device (3) for holding a plurality of workpieces to be checked, which are arranged on the holder preferably in a plurality of rows (R1, R2) separated from one another by a distance d, (ii) an illumination device (4) comprising at least ...