Dade Microscan Inc.

Dade Behring Inc.

John Charles Mazza

Edward Francis Farina

Peter Louis Gebrian

Bruce McLean Gemmell

Edward Stephen Kaminski

William David Dunfee

Frank Krufka

Nicholas Michael Shmel, Jr

Allan Cameron

Kerry Lynn Miller

Paul John Zuk

Antoine Haddad

Jeffery Kenneth Parmer

Richard O'Brien

Alan Christopher Mudd

Adrian Mark Thomas West

Samuel Garfield Ferguson, Jr

David Orrin Swett

Michael Taylor McVey

Hemant Vaidya

A cup-like broth container comprising four mutually opposed pairs of connected sidewalls with a protruding rib formed on each of four perpendicularly opposed single sidewalls and four Y-shaped clamping ridges attached to and extending outwardly from a single one of the four sidewalls located between the four sidewalls having a protruding rib.

Reagent container and canister for use in an automated microbiological analyzer

A circular shaped rotor to facilitate automated identification testing of microorganisms in a microbiology analyzer having two circular arrays of microwells downwardly projecting from the top of the rotor connected to a recessed central region by a plurality of microchannels formed in the upper surface and connecting the recessed central portion to the second plurality of microwells; the rotor is further adapted to be rotated by a source of rotational energy and moved throughout the analyzer using troughs formed near its outer diameter.

Indentification test device in a random access microbiological analyzer

A microbiological test array with a plurality of microwells connected by a microchannel to a solution reservoir. Subsequent to filling the microwells, the microchannels are sealed to protect the integrity of the solution in the test microwells.

Method for maintaining test accuracy within a microbiological test array

A microbiological test array with a generally flat base having a plurality of upwardly projecting microwells connected by a microchannel to an open reservoir formed in a top surface generally parallel to the base of the test array. The reservoir has an opening to permit an inoculum-broth liquid solution to flow from the reservoir through the microchannel, to a sacrificial evaporation well having an air vent port adapted to control a vacuum filling process, and subsequently to be distributed into each of the plurality of microwells.

Liquid flow and control in a biological test array

Performing antibiotic testing on samples contained in test arrays by orienting the arrays relative to the direction of gravity so that test solution within the microwells is drawn downwards and air within the microwells is forced to the uppermost portion of the test array. Antibiotic testing is conducted using an interrogating beam of radiation passing horizontally through the microwells at locations devoid of air bubbles.

Method for minimizing optical interference during antibiotic susceptibility readings in a microbiological analyzer

A random access microbiological analyzer for performing AST and ID tests on samples using on-board inventories of different AST test arrays and different ID test rotors within separate AST and ID incubation and analysis chambers.

Automated random access microbiological analyzer

Extracting a quantity of liquid from a closed container by driving a cannula having a passage the length of the cannula and a groove a partial length of the cannula through the closure of the container until the groove establishes communication between a pressurized chamber and the container, thereby forcing liquid from the tube through the passage.

Method and apparatus for extracting liquid samples from a closed

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