ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,278, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Saddlepoint Labs LLC (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"System and method for computer-vision based tracking and guiding of liquid transfer operations" was invented by Peter Frazier (Ithaca, N.Y.), Nicholas Abbott (Lansing, N.Y.) and Henry W. Robbins (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer-program product includes; detecting, by one or more processors, a position and an orientation of transfer component of the liquid-transferring device based on image data from a liquid-transferring operation between a liquid-transferring device and a sample plate; generating, by the one or...