Patents Assigned to Dade Behring Inc.
  • Patent number: 7386970
    Abstract: A method for dispensing a desired number of oriented tablets from a bulk source into a well within a reagent container by moving the tablets by vibration into a number of parallel loading chutes and transfer chutes and displacing the desired number of tablets into a drop chute aligned over the well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventor: Dean Charles Richwine
  • Patent number: 7381370
    Abstract: An automated analyzer for analyzing patient samples. The analyzer includes a plurality of cuvettes, which allow the samples to be mixed with various reagents. The analyzer includes one or more detectors, including a detector adapted to detect luminescence of the reaction mixture in the cuvettes. The analyzer allows for various diagnostic assays to be performed on a single system, and provides for high-sensitivity analysis at faster speeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: Allan Tit-Shing Chow, William Jackson Devlin, Sr., Timothy Patrick Evers, David Russell Thompson
  • Publication number: 20080056956
    Abstract: A small sample cup rack adapter having a spring biased plunger moveably disposed within a generally cylindrical outer body, with the plunger adapted to support a small sample cup within the outer body. After initial contact between an aspiration probe and the bottom of the small sample cup, the probe may be lowered an additional distance, minimizing the “dead volume” of sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: Tumkur R. Vijay, David R. Thompson
  • Patent number: 7338803
    Abstract: An automatic clinical analyzer in which the number of cuvette ports available for reaction vessels on a reaction carousel are 50% in a configuration using a single reagent storage areas; in a second configuration an additional reagent storage areas is employed and additional ones of the cuvette ports on reaction carousel are utilized, thereby significantly increasing throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: John Paul Mizzer, Steven Frye, William Jackson Devlin, Sr., Allan Tit-Shing Chow
  • Patent number: 7300523
    Abstract: A method for cleansing used reaction cuvettes so that whenever certain assays are to be or have been performed in the reaction cuvette, the cuvette is automatically subjected to an additional cleaning operation by providing a number of washing and drying manifolds, each of which is independently selectively activated to perform or not perform a cleaning operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: Ching-Cherng Lee, Donald Richard Phillips, Sr., Arnold Lloyd Lewis, William Jackson Devlin, Sr.
  • Patent number: 7294512
    Abstract: A multi-analyte calibration solution having known amounts of sodium carbonate, ammonium bicarbonate, and ethyl alcohol, with pH adjusted within a range between about 7.8 and 8.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas Paul Clark
  • Patent number: 7279340
    Abstract: The present invention relates to immobilized procainamide analogs, as well as to a method of making immobilized procainamide analogs. These immobilized analogs are prepared by activating the carboxyl group on a substituted p-benzoic acid derivative toward nucleophilic attack; reacting the activated benzoic acid derivative with a polyamine to produce the benzoic acid derivative of Formula 3: and binding the benzoic acid derivative of Formula 3 to a latex polymer having functional groups that react with aliphatic amino groups. A method of conducting an immunoassay using the immobilized procainamide analog Formula 3 is described, comprising the steps of preparing a solution comprising said immobilized procainamide analog; adding a sample suspected of containing procainamide to said solution; adding an anti-procainamide antibody to said solution and observing the rate of increase in solution turbidity following antibody addition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: Victor P. Chu, Zhu Teng, Steve P. A. Goss, Ronald L. Edwards, Kelle M. Garvey, Timothy J. Gorzynski, William D. Bedzyk
  • Patent number: 7260498
    Abstract: Providing context-specific electronic performance support for a device through just-in-time knowledge transfer. Performance support content comprising information regarding device procedures, device alerts, and display screens for displaying information related to the device can be stored in multiple content files. Each content file can be associated with a device alert, a device procedure, and/or a display screen. Device users can interact with one or more display screens on a display associated with the device. The device users can request performance support content by activating an icon or hyperlink on the display screen(s). A content publisher can identify performance support content responsive to each request from one or more of the content files based on context information related to the display screen(s) on the display at the time of the request. The content publisher can display a display screen comprising the identified information on the display associated with the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: James C. Battenfelder, Diane E. Harris, Maria C. Koroknay, Carolyn D. Franklin, Clark Quinn, Jude Stoller
  • Patent number: 7258480
    Abstract: A method for rapidly and uniformly mixing solutions within a biochemical analyzer by rapidly and repeatedly moving a sampling probe in a two-dimensional boomerang-curved pattern within the solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: William David Dunfee, Robert Franklin Hazlewood, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7240477
    Abstract: An improved energy tube-cable-router for securing flat cables and fluid carrying tubes and adapted to eliminate an undesirable pumping action of the fluid within the tubes by maintaining the longitudinal axis of tubes in a plane containing the central radius of curvature of tube-cable-router.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: William D. Dunfee, David G. Henderson, Thomas E. Weitkamp
  • Patent number: 7229592
    Abstract: A method for determining not to reuse a previously used and cleaned reaction cuvette in an analyzer when an assay scheduled to be performed may be adversely affected by contaminants remaining in the cleaned reaction cuvette. If determined not to reuse a previously used and cleaned reaction cuvette, the previously used and cleaned reaction cuvette is replaced with an unused new reaction cuvette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: William Jackson Devlin, Sr., Stephen Lawrence Frye, David Jeffrey Miller, Thomas John Pankratz
  • Patent number: 7228048
    Abstract: An improved mounting clamp adapted to simultaneously secure flat ribbon cables and a number of fluid tubes to a surface and having a locking feature to facilitate assembly and release.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: William D. Dunfee, David G. Henderson, Thomas E. Weitkamp
  • Patent number: 7220842
    Abstract: Methods, compositions and kits are disclosed directed at haptens, immunogens and immunoassays for buprenorphine (BUP) and nor buprenorphine (norBUP). The method comprises providing in combination in a medium (i) a sample suspected of containing buprenorphine (BUP) or norbuprenorphine (norBUP) and (ii) an antibody raised against an immunogen of buprenorphine (BUP) or norbuprenorphine (norBUP). The medium is examined for the presence of a complex comprising a labeled hapten of buprenorphine (BUP) or norbuprenorphine (norBUP) where the presence of such as complex indicates the presence of the compound in the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: Yi-Feng Zheng, Pratap Singh, Dorota Bolle, Hshiou-Ting Liu
  • Patent number: 7207913
    Abstract: A device for automatically maintaining tension and control of a drivebelt as the driving direction of the drivebelt is rapidly reversed and when the drivebelt is worn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Louis Gebrian
  • Patent number: 7205158
    Abstract: A liquid aspiration method which includes aspirating partial aliquots of liquid at a number of different depths of penetration of a pipette tip into a liquid. The different depths are selected so that partial aliquot segments are obtained throughout the entire depth of sample, optionally excluding the extreme top and bottom levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas John Robert Pankratz, William Jackson Devlin, Sr., David Russell Thompson
  • Patent number: 7189582
    Abstract: Compounds are disclosed comprising a moiety, such as a poly(amino acid), a non-poly(amino acid) label moiety, or a non-poly(amino acid) immunogenic carrier, linked to a sirolimus compound at position 26 or at position 32. Such sirolimus compounds comprising an immunogenic carrier can be employed to raise both polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies to the sirolimus compound. Polyclonal antibodies are also disclosed, which are raised against a compound wherein a moiety, such as a poly(amino acid), a non-poly(amino acid) label moiety, or a non-poly(amino acid) immunogenic carrier, is linked to a sirolimus compound at position 32. The above antibodies and sirolimus compounds comprising a label can be used in assays for the detection of sirolimus compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Chen, Holger Keim, Hshiou-ting Liu, Yi Feng Zheng, Yali Yang, Cathy K. Worley
  • Patent number: RE39600
    Abstract: A method for reducing carryover of and delivering liquid taken from a source container by a dispensing means to a target container by spinning the target container so that any liquid within the target container is removed from the dispensing means prior to dispensing liquid into the target container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventor: William Jackson Devlin, Sr.
  • Patent number: D544096
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Mark Walters, Jeannine Marie Carrio, Richard Grear Warwick, Thomas P. Shields
  • Patent number: D558336
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: Jay M. Walters, Jeannine M. Carrio, David R. Thompson, Mark R. Lloyd, Jeffery K. Parmer, Richard G. Warwick, Thomas P. Shields
  • Patent number: D566290
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffery Kenneth Parmer, Jay Mark Walters, Lawrence D. Huppman, David Russell Thompson, Jeannine Marie Carrio, Richard Grear Warwick