US Patent Issued to BECTON DICKINSON and Co. on Nov. 18 for "Robotic sample preparation system for diagnostic testing with automated position learning" (Maryland, California, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,358, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BECTON DICKINSON AND COMPANY (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Robotic sample preparation system for diagnostic testing with automated position learning" was invented by Christopher John Tesluk (Baltimore), Kevin Bailey (Monkton, Md.), Matthew Wesly (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and John Moore (Deerfield, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated apparatus can provide pre-analytical processing of samples, racking and forwarding to an adjacent analyzer for analysis. The apparatus may have a controller that implements an auto-learn process to teach robotic handlers the locations within the workspace(s) of th...