Qiagen Gaithersburg Inc.

Mesoscale Technologies, Llc.

Fei Yin

Eli N Glezer

George B Sigal

Bandele J Jeffrey-Coker

Manish Kochar

Sandor L Kovacs

Aaron H Leimkuehler

Charles M Clinton

Brian A Self

Carl Edens

Ian D Chamberlin

Kristian Roth

Dt Le

Greg Pinckney

Magnetic microplate assemblies are disclosed for assaying of biological activated magnetic particles from a supernatant. The assemblies include a magnetic microplate holder and a microplate including a plurality of wells for retaining the magnetic particles. The microplate holder includes a plurality of magnets for attracting the magnetic particles to the wells and a plurality of detents for securing the microplate in the holder. The detents allow the microplate to be tightly retained in the holder when the assembly is turned over to discard supernatant and wash buffer applied to rinse supernatant from the magnetic particles.

Magnetic microplate assembly

An automated assay processing method including transferring a first number of samples from respective sample containers to a first intermediary vessel, determining the testing adequacy of a second number of samples in a second intermediary vessel, preparing a third number of samples in a third intermediary vessel for downstream testing; and transferring a fourth number of samples from a fourth intermediary vessel to an output sample tray. These steps are all performed essentially simultaneously within the duration of a single clock cycle and are repeated during one or more subsequent clock cycles. The clock cycle may be relative to each intermediary vessel. The clock cycle also may be universal to the first, second, third and fourth intermediary vessels.

Automated assay and system

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North Potomac, MD, United States of America

Fei Yin