ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,903, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TECAN TRADING AG (Mannedorf, Switzerland).

"Log file evaluation of laboratory automation device with state machines" was invented by Chiara Marie Zok (Wiesbaden, Germany) and Georg Hinkel (Wiesbaden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining states of a laboratory automation device includes: receiving a log file from the laboratory automation device, the log file including entries of events that occurred during a procedure performed by the laboratory automation device, wherein the events have been created by components of the laboratory automation device and each entry inc...