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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2018
Gen-probe Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Rolf Silbert, Del Mar, CA (US);
David Aaron Buse, San Diego, CA (US);
Robert J. Rosati, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Olev Tammer, New York, NY (US);
Matthias Merten, San Diego, CA (US);
Richard Capella, San Diego, CA (US);
David Opalsky, San Diego, CA (US);
Gen-Probe Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A sample container of patient sample material includes a sample container barcode containing patient-identifying information. The sample container barcode on the sample container is read, and a tubular reaction vessel is provided to a printer module configured to print a barcode directly onto a surface of the tubular reaction vessel. The printer module prints a barcode on the surface of the reaction vessel by a thermal printing method, and the barcode printed onto the reaction vessel is associated with the sample container barcode.