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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2012
Qiagen Gaithersburg, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Bradley Scott Thomas, Timonium, MD (US);
Suganthi Ramachandran, Fairfax, VA (US);
Jason Troxell, Hagerstown, MD (US);
Bowen Cui, Rockville, MD (US);
Carl Theodore Edens, Highland, MD (US);
Andrew Leonard, Sykesville, MD (US);
Bert Jungheim, Solingen, DE;
Qiagen Gaithersburg, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Abstract
An automated process for converting samples includes: receiving tube strips having a number of sample tubes and samples therein, transferring multiple tube strips to a tube strip holder, dispensing sample conversion buffer into each tube, shaking the tube strip holder a first time, centrifuging the tube strip holder, removing a liquid supernatant from each tube, simultaneously inspecting the contents of each tube, dispensing a specimen transport medium and a denaturation reagent into each tube, shaking the tube strip holder a second time, heating the tube strip holder for a first length of time, shaking the tube strip holder a third time, heating the tube strip holder for a second length of time, shaking the tube strip holder a fourth time, and transferring at least a portion of each sample to a respective well on an output plate.