ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,674, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Babson Diagnostics Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Automated centrifuge loader" was invented by Mark S. Flanagan (Saugus, Mass.), James Paolino (Reading, Mass.), David George Sorenson (Chelsea, Mass.) and Nicholas Robert Monaco (Saugus, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing unit for automated preparation of biological samples included in specimen tubes is described herein. The processing unit includes a removable sample preparation component configured to receive specimen tubes, read identifiers associated with the biological samples contained in the specimen tubes, mix reagents included in ...