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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2019
Medica Corporation, Bedford, MA (US);
Ronald Jones, Newton, NH (US);
Adrian Gropper, Watertown, MA (US);
Robert Hagopian, Belmont, MA (US);
Charles Rogers, Halifax, MA (US);
Thomas Vitella, Sandown, NH (US);
Donald Barry, Jr., Groton, MA (US);
Dirk Osterloh, Arlington, MA (US);
Chen Yi, Boxborough, MA (US);
Tyler Cote, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Medica Corporation, Bedford, MA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed in one aspect is a method for performing a complete blood count (CBC) on a sample of whole blood by metering a predetermined amount of the whole blood and mixing it with a predetermined amount of diluent and stain and transferring a portion thereof to an imaging chamber of fixed dimensions and utilizing an automated microscope with digital camera and cell counting and recognition software to count every white blood cell and red blood corpuscle and platelet in the sample diluent/stain mixture to determine the number of red cells, white cells, and platelets per unit volume, and analyzing the white cells with cell recognition software to classify them.