Becton Dickinson and Company Limited

Bd Diagnostics

Dwight Livingston

Michael T VanSickler

Ammon David Lentz

Brian A Self

Michael L Marshall

Michael Justin Lizzi

Melody M H Kuroda

M Scott Ulrich

Klaus W Berndt

Adam Bruce Steel

Kevin Bailey

Alyssa Shedlosky

Richard St Pierre

Thomas D Haubert

James A Prescott

Gregory S Kramer

Steven Charles Rotundo

Artis R Lockhart

Charles D Muller

Adam C Curry

Chandra Schaub

Randy J Somerville

Jeffrey S Krause

Ernie Ritchey

John Depler Coleman

Mark A Talmer

Mathieu Dominic Turpault

Timothy Roy Hansen

Christopher John Murray

Scott Nicholas Danhof

Brian G Scrivens

Robert S Frank

James F Monthony

Gary F Hershner

Gordon Franklin

Paul Gerard Gladnick

Robert Edward Armstrong

Gerard J Sevigny

Alexander W Clark

Elisabeth Lily Sooklal

Robert C Tite

Joseph Kelleher

Sharon Virginia LaMont Leitch

Daniel Justin Lohan

Nicholas Bachur

Robert L Campbell

Michael A Brasch

Timothy M Wiles

Brian James McKeen

Ming-hsiung Yeh

Stephen Robert LaChance

Kristin Weidemaier

Andrea Liebmann-Vinson

Kevin G Dolan

Donald E Gorelick

Dustin Diemert

Miroslaw Bartkowiak

Andre Scherz

Wendy Dale Woodley

Spencer Lovette

Jayakumar Reuben

Christopher John Tesluk

Christopher M Embres

Michael J Touma

Erin Gooch Carruthers

Jeffrey S Ojala

Jack Kessler

Eric A Fallows

William Alan Fox

Brent Ronald Pohl

Charles C Yu

Patrick Shawn Beaty

Mei Yang-Woytowitz

Brian Reuben Langhoff

Liping Feng

Ben Turng

David S Sebba

Albert Lopez

Eric Ursprung

Edward Carrese

Rohini Rao

Xiaofei Chang

Patrick R Murray

Seibert Lowe

Frederic J Marsik

Raymond Johnson

Sheila J Wood-Helie

Vikram Patel

Sean Tucker

Richard St-Pierre

David M Betit

Gerard Lotz

Gerard Sevigny

Alexandre Daviet

Ben Hopwood

Michael T Vansickler

Brian James Mckeen

Stephen Robert Lachance

Ming-Hsiung Yeh

A pierceable cap may be used for containing sample specimens. The pierceable cap may prevent escape of sample specimens before transfer with a transfer device. The pierceable cap may fit over a vessel. An access port in the shell of the pierceable cap may allow passage of a transfer device through the pierceable cap. The shell receives a septum that has four half dome indentations, each indentation defining a quadrant of the septum interior. The indentations are separated by the septum floor which extends along respective first and second diameters of the septum and intersect at approximately ninety degrees. The half dome indentations guide a transfer device to the partially slitted portion of the septum floor.

Reclosing septum cap for medical sample transport and processing

An automated pre-analytical processing method and an apparatus for pre-analytical processing of samples to be forwarded to an adjacent analyzer for analysis. Rack label information is read and communicated to a processor. From the rack label information, the processor determines where to route the rack. The pre-analytical system has a rack robot that conveys racks to discrete locations depending upon the routing information assigned to the rack by the processor. The pre-analytical system has an automated station that reads the labels of individual sample containers in the rack that are brought to the automated station on instructions from the processor. Depending on the type of sample container and the type of sample disposed therein, the samples are either prepared for analysis by the automated station or the sample containers are directly passed through the automated station. Prepared samples and passed through samples are passed individually to a batching rack.

Automated sample preparation system for diagnostic testing of same

Single piece reagent holder

Disclosed herein are embodiments of a fixed magnet assembly that can be implemented into automated platforms for performing polynucleotide extraction from biological samples and preparing the polynucleotides into an amplification-ready form. The fixed magnet assembly can be used to provide magnetic energy to a container containing magnetic particles and a reaction mixture of polynucleotides, in order to bring about a separation of the magnetic particles from the reaction mixture. This can prevent or reduce magnetic particle carryover in the prepared amplification-ready sample, thereby improving amplification results.

Magnet assembly to prevent extraction particle carryover

An apparatus and associated methods of use for a controlled combination of reagents is disclosed. The apparatus includes a vessel, a vessel insert, and a cap element. The vesselhas a body portionfor receiving a biological sample. The vessel insertreceives at least one reagent therein. Preferably, the vessel insertis received in a portionof the vessel. The cap elementis attached to the vesselto secure the vessel insertin the vessel. During use, the vessel insertis adapted to release its contents when the biological sample is introduced into the body portionof the vesselupon application of an intermixing force to the vessel insert. A variety of intermixing forces may be applied, depending upon the embodiment of the present invention and its associated methods of use.

Blood culture bottles with mechanisms for controlled release of substances into culture media

The present invention relates to a system for access and retrieval of screw-top containers. In one embodiment, the system includes a tray with a plurality of apertures, the tray adapted to receive containers having a cap and a body such that each cap of each container pressed into the tray rests above a respective aperture in the tray and each body is suspended below the tray. The system also includes a rotary tool having a cavity extending from an opening at one end, the cavity defined by an interior surface that includes engagement features. The engagement features on the interior surface of the rotary tool are adapted to engage onto at least a portion of the body of the container surface defined by complementary engagement features when the rotary tool is inserted over the body of the container from below the tray.

Packaging and devices to access screw-top containers in automated systems

Sample preparation module

Reagent plate

Vessel assembly

A device for collecting a biological sample from a semi-solid surface. The device has a shaft with a proximate end and a distal end and a tip integrated with the shaft at the proximate end. The tip has a surface adapted to collect microorganisms thereon or release microorganism from, or both, wherein the adapted surface comprises at least one feature of a recess or extension to increase surface area of the tip and collect microorganisms thereon. Examples of such features include microfeatures with dimensions of about 1000 &#x3bc;m or less. Other examples include a pipette tip.

Device and apparatus for collecting microbial growth from a semi-solid surface

Process plate

Combined cap and septum assembly for a vessel

Diagnostic testing module

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Fallston, MD, United States of America

Dwight Livingston