Dade Behring Inc.

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Gmbh

Samuel Garfield Ferguson, Jr

Edward Francis Farina

Peter Louis Gebrian

John Charles Mazza

Frank Krufka

Nicholas Michael Shmel, Jr

Russell John Butler

A system for automatically testing a sample aliquot retained in temporary storage in environmentally controlled conditions on an automated clinical analyzer for a period of time without requiring operator intervention.

System for automatically storing and reprocessing patient samples in an automatic clinical analyzer

An aliquot vessel array having notched side flanges and rails of a next adjacent so that a plurality of arrays may be attached one atop another in a secure stack. Stacked aliquot vessel arrays may be simultaneously loaded into a storage unit on an automatic analyzer and automatically dispensed into a sampling track as required. The aliquot vessel array has certain handling features to ensure safe and reliable movement between the storage unit and sampling tracks.

Stackable aliquot vessel 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

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Bear, DE, United States of America

Samuel Garfield Ferguson, Jr