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US 2021/0278429 A1Published application
Reaction vessel moving member for moving reaction vessels from a processing track to a rotating device in a diagnostic analzyer
AssigneeAbbott Laboratories
InventorRobert Luoma
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Abstract
A diagnostic analyzer includes a rotating device, a first optical reader, and a second optical reader. The rotating device includes a first darkened compartment, a second darkened compartment, and an optical path along which the first darkened compartment and the second darkened compartment travel. The first optical reader is operable to read the first darkened compartment and the second optical reader is operable to read the second darkened compartment.
Claims14
A method of taking readings of samples using a diagnostic analyzer comprising:
- rotating a rotating device to move first and second darkened compartments of the rotating device along an optical path;
- and
- (1) aligning a first optical reader with the first darkened compartment when a second optical reader is aligned with the second darkened compartment, or (2) only taking readings within the first darkened compartment with the first optical reader and only taking readings within the second darkened compartment with the second optical reader.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.