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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2016
Applicant:
3m Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Inventor:
Phillip A. Bolea, Grant, MN (US);
Assignee:
3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY, St. Paul, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 59/06 (2006.01); C12M 1/00 (2006.01); C12M 3/04 (2006.01); G01N 35/00 (2006.01); B01L 3/00 (2006.01); C12M 1/12 (2006.01); C12M 1/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 59/066 (2013.01); B65G 59/067 (2013.01); C12M 3/043 (2013.01); C12M 23/04 (2013.01); C12M 23/10 (2013.01); C12M 23/22 (2013.01); C12M 99/02 (2013.01); B01L 3/505 (2013.01); B01L 2200/04 (2013.01); C12M 1/00 (2013.01); G01N 2035/00039 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus for dispensing microorganism culture plates, culture plate loader and culture plate reader comprising the same, as well as method dispensing microorganism culture plates, method of loading such culture plates into a culture plate reader, and method of counting microorganism colonies on such culture plates.