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US 12,209,290 B2Granted
Systems and methods for analyte testing and laboratory oversight
AssigneeLabrador Diagnostics LLC
InventorsElizabeth A. Holmes, Timothy Smith, Samartha Anekal, James R. Wasson, Daniel L. Young, Chinmay Pangarkar
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a method is provided comprising analyte testing on one or more types of samples.
Claims13
A method comprising:
- providing a sample processing unit comprising a liquid handling device comprising pipette assemblies, each of said pipette assemblies is independently actuatable in a vertical direction to access a sample,
- inserting a cartridge into the sample processing unit, the cartridge containing at least two types of reagents;
- picking up a magnet tool in the sample processing unit using a piston assembly in one of the pipette assemblies of the liquid handling device to interface with the magnet tool to pick up the magnet tool from a resting location in the sample processing unit outside of the pipette assemblies by extending a piston out of a nozzle of the one of the pipette assemblies to engage a proximal end of the magnet tool and retract the magnet tool back into the nozzle of the one of the pipette assemblies, wherein the proximal end engaged by the magnet tool is retractable upward into the nozzle and the magnet tool is extendable outward from the nozzle of the one of the pipette assemblies and detachable from the piston after use;
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- using one of the pipette assemblies of the sample processing unit to remove one or more of said reagents from the cartridge.
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A method comprising:
- providing a sample processing unit comprising a liquid handling device comprising pipette assemblies, each of said pipette assemblies is independently actuatable in a vertical direction to access a sample,
- inserting a cartridge into the sample processing unit, the cartridge containing at least two types of reagents;
- picking up a magnet tool in the sample processing unit using a piston assembly in one of the pipette assemblies of the liquid handling device to interface with the magnet tool to pick up the magnet tool from a resting location in the sample processing unit outside of the pipette assemblies by extending a piston out of a nozzle of the one of the pipette assemblies to engage a proximal end of the magnet tool and retract the magnet tool back into the nozzle of the one of the pipette assemblies, wherein the proximal end engaged by the magnet tool is retractable upward into the nozzle of the one of the pipette assemblies and the magnet tool is extendable outward from the nozzle and detachable from the piston after use;
- using one of the pipette assemblies of the sample processing unit to remove one or more of said reagents from the cartridge;
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- performing nucleic acid amplification on the sample in the sample processing unit.
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A method comprising:
- providing a sample processing unit comprising a liquid handling device comprising pipette assemblies, each of said pipette assemblies is independently actuatable in a vertical direction to access a sample,
- inserting a cartridge into the sample processing unit, the cartridge containing at least two types of reagents;
- picking up a magnet tool in the sample processing unit using a piston assembly in one of the pipette assemblies of the liquid handling device to interface with the magnet tool to pick up the magnet tool from a resting location in the sample processing unit outside of the pipette assemblies by extending a piston out of a nozzle of the one of the pipette assemblies to engage a proximal end of the magnet tool and retract the magnet tool back into the nozzle of the one of the pipette assemblies, wherein the proximal end engaged by the magnet tool is retractable upward into the nozzle of the one of the pipette assemblies and the magnet tool is extendable outward from the nozzle and detachable from the piston after use;
- using one of the pipette assemblies of the sample processing unit to remove one or more of said reagents from the cartridge;
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- sonicating the sample by utilizing a sonicator in the sample processing unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.