ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,379, issued on June 16, was assigned to Roche Diagnostics International AG (Rotkreuz, Switzerland).
"Method and device for checking pipette tips" was invented by Peter Hess (Aristau, Switzerland), Samuel Albin (Siat, Switzerland), Placi Wenzin (Walenstadt, Switzerland) and Fabian Caduff (Chur, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for inspecting pipette tips for defects. A holding device picks up multiple pipette tips from a first carrier. A first image acquisition device, with its optical axis aligned with the longitudinal axes of the tips, captures first image data of the pipette tip outlet openings. A s...