Patents by Inventor Robert J. Rosati
Robert J. Rosati has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240142486Abstract: A sample processing station includes two or more container holders on a platform that is rotatable about a central axis of rotation. Each holder is configured to rotate about a secondary axis of rotation. The station includes a capping/decapping mechanism to cap or decap a container held in one of the container holders and an elevator with a chuck guide that contact the container holder as the chuck is lowered by the elevator to positon the chuck with respect to the cap of the container held in the holder and to hold jaws of the container holder in a closed position. In embodiment, the chuck guide includes a yoke with opposed arms and spindles located near distal ends of the arms that engage beveled shoulders of the container holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Gen-Probe IncorporatedInventors: Rolf SILBERT, David OPALSKY, David Aaron BUSE, Robert J. ROSATI, Olev TAMMER, Richard CAPELLA, Matthias MERTEN
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Patent number: 11945239Abstract: A method for controlling a printing process by which a print head prints an image onto predetermined printable area of a label.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: GEN-PROBE INCORPORATEDInventors: Rolf Silbert, Robert J. Rosati, David Buse, Olev Tammer, Matthias Merten
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Patent number: 11815522Abstract: A sample processing station includes two or more container holders on a platform that is rotatable about a central axis of rotation. Each holder is configured to rotate about a secondary axis of rotation. The station includes a capping/decapping mechanism to cap or decap a container held in one of the container holders and an elevator with a chuck guide that contact the container holder as the chuck is lowered by the elevator to positon the chuck with respect to the cap of the container held in the holder and to hold jaws of the container holder in a closed position. In embodiment, the chuck guide includes a yoke with opposed arms and spindles located near distal ends of the arms that engage beveled shoulders of the container holder.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2023Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: GEN-PROBE INCORPORATEDInventors: Rolf Silbert, David Opalsky, David Aaron Buse, Robert J. Rosati, Olev Tammer, Richard Capella, Matthias Merten
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Publication number: 20230204616Abstract: A sample processing station includes two or more container holders on a platform that is rotatable about a central axis of rotation. Each holder is configured to rotate about a secondary axis of rotation. The station includes a capping/decapping mechanism to cap or decap a container held in one of the container holders and an elevator with a chuck guide that contact the container holder as the chuck is lowered by the elevator to positon the chuck with respect to the cap of the container held in the holder and to hold jaws of the container holder in a closed position. In embodiment, the chuck guide includes a yoke with opposed arms and spindles located near distal ends of the arms that engage beveled shoulders of the container holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: Gen-Probe IncorporatedInventors: Rolf SILBERT, David Opalsky, David Aaron Buse, Robert J. Rosati, Olev Tammer, Richard Capella, Matthias Merten
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Patent number: 11614454Abstract: A sample processing station includes two or more container holders on a platform that is rotatable about a central axis of rotation. Each holder is configured to rotate about a secondary axis of rotation. The station includes a capping/decapping mechanism to cap or decap a container held in one of the container holders and an elevator with a chuck guide that contact the container holder as the chuck is lowered by the elevator to position the chuck with respect to the cap of the container held in the holder and to hold jaws of the container holder in a closed position. In embodiment, the chuck guide includes a yoke with opposed arms and spindles located near distal ends of the arms that engage beveled shoulders of the container holder.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: GEN-PROBE INCORPORATEDInventors: Rolf Silbert, David Opalsky, David Aaron Buse, Robert J. Rosati, Olev Tammer, Richard Capella, Matthias Merten
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Publication number: 20220105739Abstract: A method for controlling a printing process by which a print head prints an image onto predetermined printable area of a label.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventors: Rolf SILBERT, Robert J. ROSATI, David BUSE, Olev TAMMER, Matthias MERTEN
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Patent number: 11090963Abstract: A printing module configured to print a label on a curved surface of an article includes an expandable printing mechanism configured to be expanded to an open configuration for receiving the article or contracted to a closed configuration placing the curved surface in an operative position with respect to a print head and an article moving assembly configured to grasp and hold the article and effect relative movement between the curved surface and the print head. The printing mechanism includes contact elements, such as rollers, that contact or otherwise engage the article when the printing mechanism is in the closed configuration and maintain the curved surface in the operative position with respect to the print head during relative movement between the curved surface and the print head.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: GEN-PROBE INCORPORATEDInventors: Rolf Silbert, Robert J. Rosati, David Buse, Olev Tammer, Matthias Merten
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Patent number: 11052690Abstract: A printing module configured to print a label on a curved surface of an article includes an expandable printing mechanism configured to be expanded to an open configuration for receiving the article or contracted to a closed configuration placing the curved surface in an operative position with respect to a print head and an article moving assembly configured to grasp and hold the article and effect relative movement between the curved surface and the print head. The printing mechanism includes contact elements, such as rollers, that contact or otherwise engage the article when the printing mechanism is in the closed configuration and maintain the curved surface in the operative position with respect to the print head during relative movement between the curved surface and the print head.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: GEN-PROBE INCORPORATEDInventors: Rolf Silbert, Robert J. Rosati, David Buse, Olev Tammer, Matthias Merten
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Patent number: 11046101Abstract: A printing module configured to print a label on a curved surface of an article includes an expandable printing mechanism configured to be expanded to an open configuration for receiving the article or contracted to a closed configuration placing the curved surface in an operative position with respect to a print head and an article moving assembly configured to grasp and hold the article and effect relative movement between the curved surface and the print head. The printing mechanism includes contact elements, such as rollers, that contact or otherwise engage the article when the printing mechanism is in the closed configuration and maintain the curved surface in the operative position with respect to the print head during relative movement between the curved surface and the print head.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: GEN-PROBE INCORPORATEDInventors: Rolf Silbert, Robert J. Rosati, David Buse, Olev Tammer, Matthias Merten
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Publication number: 20210132098Abstract: A sample processing station includes two or more container holders on a platform that is rotatable about a central axis of rotation. Each holder is configured to rotate about a secondary axis of rotation. The station includes a capping/decapping mechanism to cap or decap a container held in one of the container holders and an elevator with a chuck guide that contact the container holder as the chuck is lowered by the elevator to position the chuck with respect to the cap of the container held in the holder and to hold jaws of the container holder in a closed position. In embodiment, the chuck guide includes a yoke with opposed arms and spindles located near distal ends of the arms that engage beveled shoulders of the container holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicant: Gen-Probe IncorporatedInventors: Rolf SILBERT, David OPALSKY, David Aaron BUSE, Robert J. ROSATI, Olev TAMMER, Richard CAPELLA, Matthias MERTEN
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Patent number: 10921338Abstract: A sample processing station includes two or more container holders on a platform that is rotatable about a central axis of rotation. Each holder is configured to rotate about a secondary axis of rotation. The station includes a capping/decapping mechanism to cap or decap a container held in one of the container holders and a drip tray movable between a first position not under the capping/decapping mechanism and a second position under the capping/decamping mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: GEN-PROBE INCORPORATEDInventors: Rolf Silbert, David Opalsky, David Aaron Buse, Robert J. Rosati, Olev Tammer, Richard Capella, Matthias Merten
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Patent number: 10877057Abstract: A sample container of patient sample material includes a sample container barcode containing patient-identifying information. The sample container barcode on the sample container is read, and a tubular reaction vessel is provided to a printer module configured to print a barcode directly onto a surface of the tubular reaction vessel. The printer module prints a barcode on the surface of the reaction vessel by a thermal printing method, and the barcode printed onto the reaction vessel is associated with the sample container barcode.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Gen-Probe IncorporatedInventors: Rolf Silbert, David Aaron Buse, Robert J. Rosati, Olev Tammer, Matthias Merten, Richard Capella, David Opalsky
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Publication number: 20200094598Abstract: A printing module configured to print a label on a curved surface of an article includes an expandable printing mechanism configured to be expanded to an open configuration for receiving the article or contracted to a closed configuration placing the curved surface in an operative position with respect to a print head and an article moving assembly configured to grasp and hold the article and effect relative movement between the curved surface and the print head. The printing mechanism includes contact elements, such as rollers, that contact or otherwise engage the article when the printing mechanism is in the closed configuration and maintain the curved surface in the operative position with respect to the print head during relative movement between the curved surface and the print head.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: Gen-Probe IncorporatedInventors: Rolf SILBERT, Robert J. ROSATI, David BUSE, Olev TAMMER, Matthias MERTEN
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Publication number: 20200094597Abstract: A printing module configured to print a label on a curved surface of an article includes an expandable printing mechanism configured to be expanded to an open configuration for receiving the article or contracted to a closed configuration placing the curved surface in an operative position with respect to a print head and an article moving assembly configured to grasp and hold the article and effect relative movement between the curved surface and the print head. The printing mechanism includes contact elements, such as rollers, that contact or otherwise engage the article when the printing mechanism is in the closed configuration and maintain the curved surface in the operative position with respect to the print head during relative movement between the curved surface and the print head.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: Gen-Probe IncorporatedInventors: Rolf SILBERT, Robert J. ROSATI, David BUSE, Olev TAMMER, Matthias MERTEN
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Publication number: 20200094596Abstract: A printing module configured to print a label on a curved surface of an article includes an expandable printing mechanism configured to be expanded to an open configuration for receiving the article or contracted to a closed configuration placing the curved surface in an operative position with respect to a print head and an article moving assembly configured to grasp and hold the article and effect relative movement between the curved surface and the print head. The printing mechanism includes contact elements, such as rollers, that contact or otherwise engage the article when the printing mechanism is in the closed configuration and maintain the curved surface in the operative position with respect to the print head during relative movement between the curved surface and the print head.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: Gen-Probe IncorporatedInventors: Rolf Silbert, Robert J. Rosati, David Buse, Olev Tammer, Matthias Merten
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Patent number: 10562329Abstract: A printing module configured to print a label on a curved surface of an article includes an expandable printing mechanism configured to be expanded to an open configuration for receiving the article or contracted to a closed configuration placing the curved surface in an operative position with respect to a print head and an article moving assembly configured to grasp and hold the article and effect relative movement between the curved surface and the print head. The printing mechanism includes contact elements, such as rollers, that contact or otherwise engage the article when the printing mechanism is in the closed configuration and maintain the curved surface in the operative position with respect to the print head during relative movement between the curved surface and the print head.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Gen-Probe IncorporatedInventors: Rolf Silbert, Robert J. Rosati, David Buse, Olev Tammer, Matthias Merten
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Publication number: 20190011473Abstract: A sample processing station includes two or more container holders on a platform that is rotatable about a central axis of rotation. Each holder is configured to rotate about a secondary axis of rotation. The station includes a capping/decapping mechanism to cap or decap a container held in one of the container holders and a drip tray movable between a first position not under the capping/decapping mechanism and a second position under the capping/decamping mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Applicant: Gen-Probe IncorporatedInventors: Rolf SILBERT, David OPALSKY, David Aaron BUSE, Robert J. ROSATI, Olev TAMMER, Richard CAPELLA, Matthias MERTEN
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Patent number: 10132821Abstract: The present invention provides a processing station for automatically processing a biological sample, a system for automated real-time inventory control of consumables within a biological sample handling or assay instrument, a high throughput random access automated instrument for processing biological samples, an automated instrument for processing or analysis of a sample, and processes for automated mucoid detection and elimination. Methods of using the disclosed instruments, mucoid detection processes, and systems to process and/or analyze samples are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: GEN-PROBE INCORPORATEDInventors: Rolf Silbert, David Opalsky, David Aaron Buse, Robert J. Rosati, Olev Tammer, Richard Capella, Matthias Merten
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Publication number: 20180292427Abstract: A sample container of patient sample material includes a sample container barcode containing patient-identifying information. The sample container barcode on the sample container is read, and a tubular reaction vessel is provided to a printer module configured to print a barcode directly onto a surface of the tubular reaction vessel. The printer module prints a barcode on the surface of the reaction vessel by a thermal printing method, and the barcode printed onto the reaction vessel is associated with the sample container barcode.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2018Publication date: October 11, 2018Applicant: Gen-Probe IncorporatedInventors: Rolf Silbert, David Aaron Buse, Robert J. Rosati, Olev Tammer, Matthias Merten
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Publication number: 20160178654Abstract: The present invention provides a processing station for automatically processing a biological sample, a system for automated real-time inventory control of consumables within a biological sample handling or assay instrument, a high throughput random access automated instrument for processing biological samples, an automated instrument for processing or analysis of a sample, and processes for automated mucoid detection and elimination. Methods of using the disclosed instruments, mucoid detection processes, and systems to process and/or analyze samples are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2016Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicant: GEN-PROBE INCORPORATEDInventors: ROLF SILBERT, DAVID OPALSKY, DAVID Aaron BUSE, ROBERT J. ROSATI, OLEV TAMMER