US Patent Issued to Waters Technologies on July 28 for "Needle drive, system and method" (Massachusetts, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,273, issued on July 28, was assigned to Waters Technologies Corp. (Milford, Mass.).

"Needle drive, system and method" was invented by Joshua A. Burnett (Taunton, Mass.), Rose Solow (Newark, N.J.), David A. Simpson (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Marc E. Lemelin (Douglas, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid chromatography sample manager includes a thermal chamber, a sample platter mounted in the thermal chamber, and a needle drive including a base having a shaft configured to rotate about a vertical axis, the base attachable to an interior of a sample manager of a liquid chromatography system. The needle drive further includes a need...