US Patent Issued to Beckman Coulter on July 29 for "Clinical analyzer automated system fault diagnostic methods" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,544, issued on July 29, was assigned to Beckman Coulter Inc. (Brea, Calif.).

"Clinical analyzer automated system fault diagnostic methods" was invented by Takayuki Mizutani (Edina, Minn.), Kiyotaka Kubota (Akishima, Japan), Carl Erickson (Waconia, Minn.), Scott Maik (Brooklyn Center, Minn.) and Nicole Sovde (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating and diagnosing faults in a laboratory instrument comprising a plurality of subsystems may comprise performing an analytic sequence and a set of diagnostic steps. Such a method may be performed using a diagnostic reagent comprising paramagnetic particles and...