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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2013
Applicant:
Biomerieux, Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Inventor:
Michael Ullery, St. Louis, MO (US);
Assignee:
bioMerieux, Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G16B 99/00 (2019.01); C12Q 1/02 (2006.01); C12Q 1/04 (2006.01); C12M 1/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G16B 99/00 (2019.02); C12M 1/34 (2013.01); C12M 41/36 (2013.01); C12M 41/46 (2013.01); C12Q 1/02 (2013.01); C12Q 1/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for determining whether microbial growth is occurring within a specimen container includes steps of incubating the specimen container and obtaining a series of measurement data points while the specimen container is incubated and storing the data points in a machine-readable memory. The series of measurement data points represent a growth curve of microbial growth within the specimen container. The methods determine a positive condition of microbial growth within the container from the measurement data points.