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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2014
Roche Diagnostics Hematology, Inc., Westborough, MA (US);
Daniel Lapen, Lancaster, MA (US);
David Zahniser, Wellesley, MA (US);
Mark Licari, Acton, MA (US);
Brian J. McKeen, Bow, NH (US);
Eric D. Yeaton, Epsom, NH (US);
Dennis Poole, East Derry, NH (US);
Stephen Conroy, Maynard, MA (US);
Roche Diagnostics Hematology, Inc., Westborough, MA (US);
Abstract
The apparatus disclosed herein features a substrate arm and gripper, a platform having a top surface located opposite the substrate when the substrate arm is in a specimen processing position and featuring at least one fluid port located on a surface of the platform facing the substrate and at least one vacuum port located on the surface of the platform facing the substrate, and during operation, the apparatus is configured to (a) dispense a first quantity of fluid from the at least one fluid port to fill a separation between the substrate and the platform, (b) dispense an additional quantity of fluid from the at least one fluid port into the separation to displace a portion of the first quantity of fluid, and (c) remove the portion of the first quantity of fluid from the separation through the at least one vacuum port.