ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,540, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SPT LABTECH LTD. (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

"Pipetting head for a liquid dispensing apparatus for use with an array of pipettes" was invented by David Gledhill (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain), Reuben Pardoe (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain), Robert Lewis (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain) and David Cochrane (Bedfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pipetting head for a liquid dispensing apparatus has a pipette tip connection mechanism and a plunger clamping mechanism having a plurality of mounts for holding the plungers of the array of pipettes during use, a plurality of c...