US Patent Issued to Roche Molecular Systems on April 14 for "Tube tray for secondary tubes, secondary tube handling module, and method of handling secondary tubes in an automated processing system" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,909, issued on April 14, was assigned to Roche Molecular Systems Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Tube tray for secondary tubes, secondary tube handling module, and method of handling secondary tubes in an automated processing system" was invented by Lawrence Chiu (Orinda, Calif.), Reiner Hitt (Sursee, Switzerland), Raphael Haag (Rain, Switzerland), Erich Caflisch (Bonaduz, Switzerland) and Nicolas Lehner (Wil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention describes a secondary tube tray for use in an automated processing system, the tray comprising a base module and a secondary tube insert. Furthermore, the present in...