US Patent Issued to Thermo Finnigan on Oct. 6 for "Preventing dry syringes" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,278, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Thermo Finnigan LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Preventing dry syringes" was invented by Scott T. Quarmby (Round Rock, Texas), Xin Zheng (Austin, Texas) and Charles Vogt (Austin, 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 timing logic to determine a maximum time without wetting for a syringe; and rinsing logic to control an autosampler to rinse the syringe when the maximum time without wetti...