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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2015
Hycor Biomedical, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);
Ronald Norman Diamond, Anaheim Hills, CA (US);
Steve Michael Gann, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Eric Darnell Hall, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Tae Ho Hwang, Brea, CA (US);
John Lewis Morton, Canyon Lake, CA (US);
Anatoly Moskalev, Irvine, CA (US);
Bruce Alan Sargeant, Orange, CA (US);
Dennis Edwin Rieger, Hermosa Beach, CA (US);
Marinela Gombosev, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Mark David Van Cleve, Long Beach, CA (US);
Hycor Biomedical, LLC, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Abstract
Apparatuses and methods of optically analyzing fluid within a pipette are described herein. In an embodiment, an optical reader subassembly includes a housing including an internal area, a container configured to hold a fluid sample at a sample position in a light tight manner within the internal area of the housing, a light source configured to project light onto the fluid sample within the container, and an optical sensor configured to move between different sensor positions while the fluid sample remains stationary at the sample position, the different sensor positions including at least two of: (i) a first sensor position for taking a luminescence reading of the fluid sample; (ii) a second sensor position for taking a dark current or other background measurement; and (iii) a third sensor position for taking a fluorescence reading of the fluid sample.