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Automated clinical diagnostic system and method

US11275065B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. · US

Inventors

Uwe Kobold · Wielenbach, DE
Hubert Paul · Wielenbach, DE
Martin Rempt · Penzberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 18, 2019
Grant date	Mar 15, 2022
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 6, 2040

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01N2030/8813
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A diagnostic system and method and an interconnected laboratory system comprising clinical diagnostic systems are presented. The diagnostic system comprises a sample preparation module, a liquid chromatography (LC) separation module coupled to the sample preparation module via a sample preparation/LC interface, a mass spectrometer (MS) module coupled to the LC separation module via an LC/MS interface, and a result calculation module for identifying and/or quantifying analytes or substances of interest contained in the samples and passed through the LC separation and MS modules. The diagnostic system comprises a controller programmed to monitor operational parameters (1-n) indicative of a performance status of the diagnostic system, to trigger a quality control procedure and/or a maintenance procedure whenever one or more parameters (1-n) of the operational parameters (1-n) is out of specification, and to minimize the quality control and/or maintenance procedures as long as the operational parameters (1-n) remains within specification.

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