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US 12,768,851 B2Granted
Laboratory apparatus, laboratory sample handling system and use of a laboratory apparatus and/or a laboratory sample handling system
AssigneeRoche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
InventorArtur Tropmann
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Abstract
A laboratory apparatus for use in a laboratory sample handling system, wherein the apparatus comprises a cap waste disposal catcher, wherein the catcher is designed to catch a laboratory cap removed from a laboratory sample container containing a laboratory sample, and an electric field generator, wherein the generator is designed to generate an electric field to attract a residue of the sample released by the cap to the catcher.
Claims23
A laboratory apparatus for use in a laboratory liquid sample handling system, wherein the apparatus comprises:
- a cap waste disposal catcher, wherein the catcher is designed to catch a laboratory cap removed from a laboratory liquid sample container containing a laboratory liquid sample, wherein the catcher comprises a surface that is designed to be exposed to at least one impacting droplet of the laboratory liquid sample and that is heterogeneously patterned to originate a heterogeneous flow velocity within the at least one impacting droplet on the surface for reducing a rebound energy of the at least one impacting droplet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.