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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kevin Auton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE29 2ED, GB;
Paul Thomas Ryan, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE17 5AQ, GB;
David Byatt, Cambridgeshire PE19 35A, GB;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/100 ; G01N 2/726 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/100 ; G01N 2/726 ;
Abstract
A system for automated excision of one or more samples from a sample media, including by using a device for electronically capturing one or more traits of samples in the media, using a microprocessor linked to the device to analyze the captured traits by comparison to reference databases, identifying samples of interest at location coordinates in the sample media, and automatically excising and processing the samples through the use of a novel robotic excision tool.