Beckman Coulter, Inc.

Dh Technologies Development Pte. Ltd.

Takayuki Mizutani

Shigeru Fujii

Kazuki Umebara

Thomas W Roscoe

Subhasish Purkayastha

Aaron Hudson

Katsuhiro Seo

Richard Wolf

David Sorrentino

Glenn A Davis

Kiyotaka Kubota

Marie Willette

Leila Nazemi

Rebecca Jean Busacker

Wido Menhardt

Stephanie D Yancey

Cody Joseph Precord

Benjamin Robert Nelson

Carl Erickson

Jon Pallage Lindquist, Jr

Darshan Harish Baldev

Scott Maik

Laura Elizabeth Schilling Holmes

Matt Barnabei

Arthur Conan Dewitt

Nicole Sovde

Stephanie Yancey

Donald Teal

Andrew John Gustafson

Jon Pallage Lindquist

Hitoshi Narita

Atsushi Matsushita

One embodiment of the invention is directed to a sample processing system for analyzing a biological sample from a patient. The sample processing system comprises: a plurality of analyzers comprising at least one mass spectrometer, wherein each analyzer in the plurality of analyzers is configured to acquire at least one measurement value corresponding to at least one characteristic of the biological sample; at least one data storage component which stores (i) a list of parameters for the plurality of analyzers, and (ii) at least two condition sets, which contain data associated with completing one or more test orders. The condition sets contain data which differ by at least one variable; and a control system operatively coupled to the plurality of analyzers, and the at least one data storage component. The control system is configured to (i) determine which condition set of the at least two condition sets to use based on the determined condition set, (ii) determine which analyzer or analyzers of the plurality of analyzers to use to process each test order based on the determined condition set and one or more parameters from the list of parameters, and (iii) cause the determined analyzer or analyzers to acquire one or more measurement values for the biological sample.

Integrated sample processing system with variable workflows

A method for operating and diagnosing faults in a laboratory instrument comprising a plurality of subsystems may comprise performing an analytic sequence and a set of diagnostic steps. Such a method may be performed using a diagnostic reagent comprising paramagnetic particles and lacking an antibody component. Such a method may also include evaluating a set of the instrument's subsystems in the opposite of the order in which those subsystems are used during analysis.

Clinical analyzer automated system fault diagnostic methods

Quality control tests for a diagnostic instrument can be run in an efficient manner by using a subset of the potential quality control materials to perform tests for identifying failures in the diagnostic instrument's components. Such subsets could be defined in a variety of manners, and could allow component failures to be tested relatively more frequently in a more efficient manner. Additionally, issues for particular components of diagnostic instruments may be identified based on analysis of quality control results. This identification may be part of a method that comprises receiving a plurality of quality control results wherein each quality control result from the plurality of quality control results is obtained based on performing a measurement of a corresponding quality control sample using the diagnostic instrument.

System and method for device specific quality control

Automatic substance preparation and evaluation systems and methods are provided for preparing and evaluating a fluidic substance, such as e.g. a sample with bodily fluid, in a container and/or in a dispense tip. The systems and methods can detect volumes, evaluate integrities, and check particle concentrations in the container and/or the dispense tip.

Substance preparation evaluation system

Service for a machine such as a laboratory instrument can be facilitated by capture of images showing the field of view of a user of the machine, and modification of those images to remove confidential information. Modified images can then be provided to service technicians so that the service technicians can have visual information that would allow them to more effectively communicate and interact with the machines' users.

Service glasses with selective data provision

An integrated sample processing system including an analyzer and a mass spectrometer is disclosed. The integrated sample processing system can perform multiple different types of detection, thereby providing improved flexibility and better accuracy in processing samples. The detection systems in the sample processing system may include an optical detection system and a mass spectrometer.

Integrated sample processing system with multiple detection capability

A luminometer () includes a light detector () configured to sense photons (). The luminometer () includes an analog circuit () configured to provide an analog signal () based on the photons () emitted from assay reactions over a time period and a counter circuit () configured to provide a photon count () based on the photons () emitted from the assay reactions over the time period. The luminometer () includes a luminometer controller () configured to, in response to an analog signal value of the analog signal () being greater than a predetermined value, determine and report a measurement value of the photons () emitted from the assay reactions over the time period based on the analog signal value of the analog signal () and a linear function (). Optionally, the linear function () is derived from a relationship between the analog signal () and the photon count ().

Analog light measuring and photon counting in chemiluminescence measurements comprising a luminometer controller to compare digitized photon count to a discreet-analog crossover value

Analog light measuring and photon counting with a luminometer system for assay reactions in chemiluminescence measurements

Pipette tip for a laboratory instrument

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Edina, MN, United States of America

Takayuki Mizutani