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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2019
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc., Tarrytown, NY (US);
Michael Heydlauf, Cary, NC (US);
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc., Tarrytown, NY (US);
Abstract
Predictive quality control apparatus and methods for diagnostic testing systems may include a decision module that continually receives and correlates related data along with quality control results. The related data may include, but not be limited to, one or more of the number and type of tests previously performed by a diagnostic analyzer, analyzer temperature, vibration level, humidity level, atmospheric pressure, degree of water ionization, refrigerated storage temperature of components used by the diagnostic analyzer, reagent lot number, reagent lot expiration, and/or other sensor and/or externally-sourced data. The decision module may be trained with quality control results indicating acceptable and unacceptable analyzer operation along with the related data in order to recognize patterns that may indicate subsequent unacceptable analyzer operation. The predictive apparatus and methods may accordingly notify a user of potentially unacceptable analysis operation well before discovery of such by conventional quality control testing.