Idexx Laboratories, Inc.

Ortho-clinical Diagnostics, Inc

Johnson & Johnson Clinical Diagnostics, Inc.

Mark Elliott Deacon

Mark Weston Pierson

William Franklin Gottermeier

Carl Russell Rich

Mark Raymond Dumont

Ross Bryan Goldman

Stanislaw Barski

Joseph M Chiapperi

Richard James Versluys

Timothy Robert Keegan

Mark Benno Loeser

Gerald George Meiler

Joseph Michael Chiapperi

A retaining clip for retaining reagent test slides in a stacked arrangement includes a first assembly having a first cover plate and at least two parallel, co-planar rails extending transversely from an inner surface of the first cover plate. A second assembly includes a second cover plate, and a rail receiving platform extending transversely from an inner surface of the second cover plate. The first cover plate and the second cover plate define between them a space for receiving the plurality of reagent test slides. The rails of the first assembly include ratchet teeth, and the rail receiving platform of the second assembly includes pawls. The pawls engage the ratchet teeth to prevent the separation of the first assembly and the second assembly and to securely but removably hold the plurality of reagent test slides in a stacked arrangement between the first and second cover plates.

Retaining clip for reagent test slides

An ion-junction fibrous bridge and a potentiometric test element incorporating the same, wherein the fibers extending generally along the center-line between two liquid access apertures in the bridge, are readily capable of conducting aqueous liquid through the bridge, and fibers extending at an angle of at least 20 .degree. from said center-line are not readily capable of conducting aqueous liquid.

Directional flow ion-junction bridge

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Mark Elliott Deacon