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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2016
Hycor Biomedical, Llc, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Ronald Norman Diamond, Anaheim Hills, CA (US);
Steve Michael Gann, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Eric Darnell Hall, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Tae Ho Hwang, Brea, CA (US);
John Lewis Morton, Canyon Lake, CA (US);
Anatoly Moskalev, Irvine, CA (US);
Bruce Alan Sargeant, Orange, CA (US);
Dennis Edwin Rieger, Hermosa Beach, CA (US);
Marinela Gombosev, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Mark David Van Cleve, Long Beach, CA (US);
HYCOR Biomedical, LLC, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Abstract
Apparatuses and methods for washing a plurality of fluid samples are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a system for washing a plurality of fluid samples respectively located within a plurality of cuvettes includes a rotor configured to rotate the plurality of cuvettes about an axis, a traveler mechanism located beneath the rotor, the traveler mechanism configured to move a plurality of magnets parallel to the axis of rotation of the rotor to position the plurality of magnets so that each cuvette of the plurality of cuvettes is located adjacent to at least one magnet of the plurality of magnets, and a wash system located above the rotor, the wash system configured to at least one of inject fluid into or aspirate fluid from the plurality of the cuvettes, while the plurality of magnets suspend magnetic particles located within each of the plurality of cuvettes.