Host apparatus and method providing calibration and reagent information to a measurement apparatus which makes use of a consumable reagent in a measuring process

USRE44345E1 · kind E1 · reissue

Assignees

• Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. · US
• Roche Operations Ltd. · BM

Inventors

• Friedrich Ackermann · Heidelberg, DE
• Manfred Augstein · Mannheim, DE
• Timothy L. Beck · Pendleton, US
• Markus Stephan Fuerst · Heddesheim, DE
• Robert Lawrence Meek · Indianapolis, US
• Philip Edgar Pash · Indianapolis, US
• Blaine Edward Ramey · Indianapolis, US
• Robert P. Sabo · Indianapolis, US
• Matthew C. Sauers · Indianapolis, US
• Joerg Schreiber · Heddesheim, DE
• Wolfgang Walter · Heidelberg, DE
• Seth Faulkner Williams · Noblesville, US
• Frederick Leland Wittekind, III · Anderson, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 16, 2006
• Grant date: Jul 9, 2013
• Expiry date: May 16, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

Apparatuses and methods providing data such as, for example, calibration and reagent information (30) over a network (6) to a measurement apparatus (4) which makes use of a consumable reagent (18) in a measuring process are disclosed. The present invention permits a measurement apparatus (4) to download the necessary code assignment (24) and calibration data (32) of the consumable reagent (18) by means of an electronic communication protocol from a host (33). The host (33) can be a software application running on a host computer (34), another measurement apparatus (50, 58) with or without a code-key slot used to read a memory device providing the above mentioned information (30), a dedicated connectivity device, such as a docking station (44), a portable memory reader (48), a remote computer (54), and combinations thereof.