US Patent Issued to Thermo Finnigan on June 30 for "Intelligent syringe changing capability with multiple syringe seats on autosampler" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,661, issued on June 30, was assigned to Thermo Finnigan LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Intelligent syringe changing capability with multiple syringe seats on autosampler" was invented by Xin Zheng (Austin, Texas) and Deven L. Shinholt (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are scientific instrument support systems, as well as related methods, computing devices, and computer-readable media. For example, in some embodiments, a scientific instrument support apparatus includes evaluation logic to identify a first syringe has a bent needle, a bent plunger, a blocked needle, or a stuck plunger; syringe logic to switch fr...