US Patent Issued to REVVITY HEALTH SCIENCES on Dec. 16 for "Pipetting apparatus and methods" (American, Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,577, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to REVVITY HEALTH SCIENCES INC. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Pipetting apparatus and methods" was invented by Thomas Perroud (Lexington, Mass.), Thomas Rawlins (Tyngsborough, Mass.), Hans-Juergen Tiedtke (Bonn, Germany) and Kai Hassler (Lucerne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated pipetting system includes a pipettor. The pipettor includes a pipetting channel, a first plunger mechanism operable to change a pressure in the pipetting channel to aspirate or dispense a liquid, and a second plunger mechanism operable to change the pressure in the pipetting channel to aspirate or dispense the ...