ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,316, issued on June 16, was assigned to Streamline Bio Taiwan (Zhubei City, Taiwan).

"Lab automation and related systems and methods" was invented by Yu-Shun Hsiao (Cambridge, Mass.), Zheng-Lung Wu (Zhubei City, Taiwan) and Yu-Hao Huang (Zhubei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system that comprises a lab space housing multiple workstations comprising at least two workstations each performing a different type of bio lab task from another. The lab space can have a lab floor space comprising an occupied lab floor space on which the multiple workstations are occupied, and an unoccupied lab f...