Method and apparatus for identification of bacteria

US9180448B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Becton, Dickinson and Company · US

Inventors

• Robert Edward Armstrong · Cockeysville, US
• John Page · White Hall, US
• Ben Turng · Ellicott City, US
• Glen Richard Davis · San Jose, US
• Strett Roger Nicolson · Owings Mills, US
• Timothy Roy Hansen · Spring Grove, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 6, 2011
• Grant date: Nov 10, 2015
• Expiry date: Jul 6, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N35/00871
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An automated system for identifying in a biological sample microorganisms and their antimicrobial susceptibility (AST). The system provided an automated platform for preparing, from a single biological sample, inoculates for both ID and AST. The system loads a plate for ID testing as samples are being prepared for AST testing. The system tracks the sample and the inoculates from the samples to link the test results to the sample and the patients from whom the sample was obtained.