US Patent Issued to Mettler-Toledo Rainin on Oct. 6 for "Pipette tip adapter" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,268, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Mettler-Toledo Rainin LLC (Oakland, Calif.).

"Pipette tip adapter" was invented by Richard Cote (Hudson, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter for connecting an array of pipette tips having through bores with conical upper ends to a multichannel air displacement pipettor having a plurality of ports with compliant internal sealing surfaces. The adapter comprises a planar base with an array of openings extending between its top and bottom surfaces. Sealing tubes project upwardly from the top surface, and tip mounting tubes project downwardly from the bottom surface, with pairs of sealing ...