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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2023
Gen-probe Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
David Buse, San Diego, CA (US);
David Howard Combs, San Diego, CA (US);
Norbert D. Hagen, Carlsbad, CA (US);
David Opalsky, San Diego, CA (US);
Bruce Richardson, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Anita Prasad, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Keith Moravick, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Tyler Moore, Los Gatos, CA (US);
GEN-PROBE INCORPORATED, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for incubating the contents of a plurality of receptacles and for detecting a signal emitted by the contents of each of the receptacle includes a plurality of receptacle holders configured to incubate the contents of each a plurality of receptacles held by each of the receptacle holders. A controller is coupled to each of the receptacle holders and is configured to independently control an incubation temperature of each of the receptacle holders to independently control a temperature at which the receptacles held by each of the receptacle holders is incubated. At least one signal detector is configured to detect a signal emitted by the contents of each of the receptacles held in each of the receptacle holders, and a signal detector indexer is configured to successively optically couple each signal detector with each of the receptacles held in each of the receptacle holders to detect optical emissions from each successively coupled receptacle.