ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,982, issued on March 31, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Dispensing apparatus, dispensing method, and computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Takumi Fukuda (Tokyo), Noriaki Ujiie (Tokyo) and Koji Ohashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tip 230 holds a liquid and discharges the liquid to a well 310. A dispensing unit 220 performs a dispensing process by discharging a constant dispensing amount of the liquid out of the liquid that is held by the tip 230 to the well 310. An arithmetic unit 10 calculates a dispensing position with respect to the well 310 based on container information on the well 310...