US Patent Issued to TECAN TRADING on March 31 for "Pipetting method and pipetting device" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,386, issued on March 31, was assigned to TECAN TRADING AG (Mannedorf, Switzerland).

"Pipetting method and pipetting device" was invented by Noa Schmid (Kriens, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for controlling at least one of aspirating and of dispensing a liquid dose or of producing a liquid dose in a pipette or in receptacle, the method having the steps of first loading a first pipette with a first working medium at a first pressure having a first sign with respect to a reference pressure, thereby dispensing the liquid dose into the receptacle or aspirating the liquid dose into the first pipette, sec...