Idexx Laboratories, Inc.

Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc

Johnson & Johnson Clinical Diagnostics, Inc.

Richard James Versluys

Mark Weston Pierson

Carl Russell Rich

Mark Raymond Dumont

Ross Bryan Goldman

Stanislaw Barski

Joseph M Chiapperi

Mark Elliott Deacon

Timothy Robert Keegan

Mark Benno Loeser

Gerald George Meiler

J Daniel Riall

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

A conveyor and a method of providing a reaction cuvette using a conveyor, wherein a sensor is included to sense whether more than one cuvette is being conveyed. Because the cuvettes are received from a stack, one at a time, the sensor determines if two stacked cuvettes are present on the conveyor instead of one, by sensing the presence or absence of a cuvette projecting above the top of the desired cuvette.

Cuvette conveyor and sensor

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Spencerport, NY, United States of America

Richard James Versluys