Patents by Inventor Armin Tgetgel

Armin Tgetgel 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: 7427510
    Abstract: System for processing samples, in particular samples containing nucleic acids comprising a multichamber arrangement the chambers of which are used to receive liquids and it also concerns a pipetting device for removing liquids from the chambers and/or dispensing liquid into the chambers, wherein the system has a contamination protection which can move relative to the multichamber arrangement and which prevents contamination of an adjacent second chamber with liquid from the first chamber during a pipetting operation in the first chamber, by preventing discharge of fluid droplets from the first chamber into the second chamber by at least partially covering the first chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Ulrich Schubert, Udo Eichenlaub, Armin Tgetgel
  • Publication number: 20070148035
    Abstract: A method and a disposable to avoid false nucleic acid amplification results based on the alklylation of DNA present at surfaces of disposables. More particularly, the present invention is directed to an improved method and a disposable, whereby the alkylation of DNA is performed using ethylene oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Armin Tgetgel, Joachim Siedel, Alois Rainer, Wolf-Dieter Engel
  • Publication number: 20050281714
    Abstract: System for processing samples, in particular samples containing nucleic acids comprising a multichamber arrangement the chambers of which are used to receive liquids and it also concerns a pipetting device for removing liquids from the chambers and/or dispensing liquid into the chambers, wherein the system has a contamination protection which can move relative to the multichamber arrangement and which prevents contamination of an adjacent second chamber with liquid from the first chamber during a pipetting operation in the first chamber, by preventing discharge of fluid droplets from the first chamber into the second chamber by at least partially covering the first chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2005
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Applicant: Roche Diagnostic GmBH
    Inventors: Frank Schubert, Udo Eichenlaub, Armin Tgetgel
  • Patent number: 6921513
    Abstract: System for processing samples, in particular samples containing nucleic acids comprising a multichamber arrangement the chambers of which are used to receive liquids and it also concerns a pipetting device for removing liquids from the chambers and/or dispensing liquid into the chambers, wherein the system has a contamination protection which can move relative to the multichamber arrangement and which prevents contamination of an adjacent second chamber with liquid from the first chamber during a pipetting operation in the first chamber, by preventing discharge of fluid droplets from the first chamber into the second chamber by at least partially covering the first chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Ulrich Schubert, Udo Eichenlaub, Armin Tgetgel
  • Publication number: 20030129094
    Abstract: System for processing samples, in particular samples containing nucleic acids comprising a multichamber arrangement the chambers of which are used to receive liquids and it also concerns a pipetting device for removing liquids from the chambers and/or dispensing liquid into the chambers, wherein the system has a contamination protection which can move relative to the multichamber arrangement and which prevents contamination of an adjacent second chamber with liquid from the first chamber during a pipetting operation in the first chamber, by preventing discharge of fluid droplets from the first chamber into the second chamber by at least partially covering the first chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2000
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Inventors: Frank Ulrich Schubert, Udo Eichenlaub, Armin Tgetgel
  • Patent number: D628306
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Ulrich Blanc, Armin Tgetgel, Maximilian Ruhstorfer