Samuel David Ferguson

US Patent:

20020119561, Aug 29, 2002

Filed:

Feb 28, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/795823

Inventors:

Edward Farina - Oxford PA, US
Samuel Ferguson - Bear DE, US
Peter Gebrian - Wilmington DE, US
Frank Krufka - Kirkwood PA, US
John Mazza - Newark DE, US
Nicholas Shmel - Elkton MD, US

International Classification:

C12M001/34

US Classification:

435/288500, 435/305200

Abstract:

A microbiological test array with a generally flat base having a plurality of upwardly projecting microwells connected by a microchannel to an open reservoir formed in a top surface generally parallel to the base of the test array. The reservoir has an opening to permit an inoculum-broth liquid solution to flow from the reservoir through the microchannel, to a sacrificial evaporation well having an air vent port adapted to control a vacuum filling process, and subsequently to be distributed into each of the plurality of microwells.

US Patent:

20030129095, Jul 10, 2003

Filed:

Jan 4, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/037512

Inventors:

Edward Farina - Oxford PA, US
Samuel Ferguson - Bear DE, US

International Classification:

B01L003/00

US Classification:

422/102000, 422/099000, 422/942000, 422/063000, 422/065000, 435/288400

Abstract:

An aliquot vessel array having notched side flanges and rails of a next adjacent so that a plurality of arrays may be attached one atop another in a secure stack. Stacked aliquot vessel arrays may be simultaneously loaded into a storage unit on an automatic analyzer and automatically dispensed into a sampling track as required. The aliquot vessel array has certain handling features to ensure safe and reliable movement between the storage unit and sampling tracks.

US Patent:

20080050278, Feb 28, 2008

Filed:

Aug 25, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/510173

Inventors:

Edward Francis Farina - Lincoln University PA, US
Russell John Butler - Berwyn PA, US
Samuel Garfield Ferguson - Bear DE, US

International Classification:

G01N 35/00

US Classification:

422 64

Abstract:

A system for automatically testing a sample aliquot retained in temporary storage in environmentally controlled conditions on an automated clinical analyzer for a period of time without requiring operator intervention.