Patents by Inventor Robert Scholz-Mareich

Robert Scholz-Mareich 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).

  • Patent number: 11867710
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method and/or a device for carrying out chemical, biochemical and/or immunochemical analyses of liquid samples, which are present in a sample store of an automatic analyzer, with the aid of liquid reagents which are present in at least one reagent store of the analyzer, with cuvettes for receiving the liquid samples and reagents, wherein a plurality of cuvettes is arranged as at least one stationary, linear cuvette array in the analyzer. The analyzer has movable and stationary automated components, wherein at least two automated components are designed so as to be movable in the x-direction independently of one another along or parallel to the line of movement defined by the linear cuvette array and each have access to different cuvettes or groups of cuvettes in a freely selectable sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Meon Medical Solutions GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Berthold Limbach, Arnold Bartel, Herfried Huemer, Reinhard Marik, Patrick Kraus-Füreder, Robert Scholz-Mareich, Wolfgang Sprengers
  • Patent number: 11635443
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method and/or a device for carrying out chemical, biochemical and/or immunochemical analyses of liquid samples, which are present in a sample store of an automatic analyzer, with the aid of liquid reagents which are present in at least one reagent store of the analyzer. In one example embodiment, the automatic analyzer includes cuvettes, a first pipettor, a device with an optical measurement unit, a device for heterogenous immunoassays, a cuvette washing unit, a needle washing unit, a temperature control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: MEON MEDICAL SOLUTIONS GMBH & CO KG
    Inventors: Berthold Limbach, Arnold Bartel, Herfried Huemer, Reinhard Marik, Patrick Kraus-Füreder, Robert Scholz-Mareich, Wolfgang Sprengers
  • Publication number: 20210239604
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to, for example, an optical measurement unit for obtaining measurement signals from liquid media which are present in cuvettes lined up next to one another. In one embodiment, the optical measurement unit includes a light-supplying unit for emitting an inlet radiation into the cuvettes, and a detection unit for detecting a measurement radiation exiting from the cuvettes and for converting the measurement radiation into an electrical measurement signal. In such an embodiment, the light-supplying unit has a plurality of LED light sources which emit in a spectrally different manner in the UV/VIS/NIR wavelength range, and wherein the detection unit includes at least one photodiode fixedly assigned to each cuvette of a cuvette array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Herfried Huemer, Arnold Bartel, Stefan Gulo, Patrick Kraus-Füreder, Robert Scholz-Mareich, Wolfgang Sprengers
  • Publication number: 20210197188
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a method and a device for carrying out chemical, biochemical and/or immunochemical analyses of liquid samples, which are present in a sample store of an automatic analyzer, with the aid of liquid reagents, which are present in at least one reagent store of the analyzer. In one embodiment, a analyzer is disclosed including cuvettes for holding the liquid samples and reagents, the cuvettes are arranged in at least one stationary, linear cuvette array. The analyzer further has an optical measurement unit with a stationary light-supplying unit which has at least one light distributor device that feeds the light from a plurality of LED light sources emitting in a spectrally different manner in the UV/VIS/NIR wavelength range into the inlet windows of the individual cuvettes of the cuvette array. The optical measurement unit further includes a stationary detection unit assigned to outlet windows of the cuvettes and further includes a plurality of photodiodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Herfried Huemer, Arnold Bartel, Patrick Kraus-Füreder, Robert Scholz-Mareich, Wolfgang Sprengers, Michael Bergbaur, Reinhard Marik
  • Publication number: 20210156879
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method and/or a device for carrying out chemical, biochemical and/or immunochemical analyses of liquid samples, which are present in a sample store of an automatic analyzer, with the aid of liquid reagents which are present in at least one reagent store of the analyzer, with cuvettes for receiving the liquid samples and reagents, wherein a plurality of cuvettes is arranged as at least one stationary, linear cuvette array in the analyzer. The analyzer has movable and stationary automated components, wherein at least two automated components are designed so as to be movable in the x-direction independently of one another along or parallel to the line of movement defined by the linear cuvette array and each have access to different cuvettes or groups of cuvettes in a freely selectable sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Berthold Limbach, Arnold Bartel, Herfried Huemer, Reinhard Marik, Patrick Kraus-Füreder, Robert Scholz-Mareich, Wolfgang Sprengers
  • Publication number: 20210041472
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method and/or a device for carrying out chemical, biochemical and/or immunochemical analyses of liquid samples, which are present in a sample store of an automatic analyzer, with the aid of liquid reagents which are present in at least one reagent store of the analyzer. In one example embodiment, the automatic analyzer includes cuvettes, a first pipettor, a device with an optical measurement unit, a device for heterogenous immunoassays, a cuvette washing unit, a needle washing unit, a temperature control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Berthold Limbach, Arnold Bartel, Herfried Huemer, Reinhard Marik, Patrick Kraus-Füreder, Robert Scholz-Mareich, Wolfgang Sprengers