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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2018
Hycor Biomedical, Llc, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Anatoly Moskalev, Irvine, CA (US);
Steven M. Gann, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Anthony Dezan, Irvine, CA (US);
Yinglei Tao, Foothill Ranch, CA (US);
Jonathan Miao, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Taylor Reid, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Evan McMenamy, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Hycor Biomedical, LLC, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for mixing a fluid/media for an assay are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a mixing device for an immunochemistry system includes a pipette configured to aspirate fluid and/or paramagnetic particles from or dispense fluid and/or paramagnetic particles into a cuvette, at least one nonconcentric mass configured cause the pipette to move in a mixing motion, and a control unit configured to activate the at least one nonconcentric mass while the pipette is located within the cuvette so as to mix the fluid and/or paramagnetic particles within the cuvette.