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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2019
Highres Biosolutions, Inc., Beverly, MA (US);
Louis Guarracina, Newburyport, MA (US);
Ulysses Gilchrist, Reading, MA (US);
HIGHRES BIOSOLUTIONS, INC., Beverly, MA (US);
Abstract
An auto-navigating robotic processing vehicle including a carriage having a frame, an autonomous drive section configured to traverse the carriage effecting vehicle travel on a facility floor, and having an autonomous navigation section to effect autonomous navigation vehicle travel, a processing section with different processing modules connected to and carried by the frame, each of the different processing modules having a different predetermined laboratory processing function with a different predetermined function characteristic corresponding to the processing module and being automatically selectable to effect a preprocess or preprocess condition of laboratory samples and/or sample holders with respect to a process at a processing station, and a controller automatically selects at least one processing module and the corresponding predetermined function of the selected processing module effecting automatically the preprocess or preprocess condition based on an identification of a travel location for the vehicle and the process of the at the processing station.