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Automated sample processing system

US11454574B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Beckman Coulter, Inc. · US

Inventors

Michael Eberhardt · Bartlett, US
Charles Martinez · Dallas, US
Kathleen Payne · Indianapolis, US
Christoph Welte · Neu-Ulm, DE
Bernd Wiedemann · Mering, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 7, 2013
Grant date	Sep 27, 2022
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 6, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01N2035/0094
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

One embodiment of the invention is directed to a method comprising receiving instruction data relating to a sample in a sample container. The method includes generating, by at least one processor using a workflow management layer, a process plan for the sample, and providing the process plan to a process control layer. The process plan comprises a plurality of possible routes. The method also comprises selecting, by the at least one processor using the process control layer, an optimized route within the plurality of possible routes in the process plan, and providing the optimized route to a middleware control layer. The at least one processor and middleware control layer are operable to cause a transport system to proceed along the selected route.

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