Patents by Inventor Avery Osgood

Avery Osgood 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).

  • Method for washing and drying pins in microarray spotting instruments
    Patent number: 7521245
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for washing and drying pins in a microarray spotting instrument. The apparatus includes an array of chambers, each for receiving one of the pins of the spotting instrument. To wash the pins, streams of wash fluid are directed at the pins. To dry the pins, a gas such as air is flowed over pin surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: PerkinElmer LAS, Inc.
    Inventors: Avery Osgood, Mack J. Schermer, Marc Silvagni
  • Imaging system for an optical scanner
    Patent number: 6441379
    Abstract: An imaging system comprises a radiation device for providing excitation radiation of at least two different wavelengths, an objective lens for focusing the excitation wavelengths onto a sample to produce fluorescent emission, and a mirror, configured as a geometric beam splitter, disposed in the transmission path of the emission radiation and excitation radiation subsequent to reflection from the sample and collimation by the lens, wherein the mirror is utilized to reflect one of the collimated excitation and emission radiation such that the emission is directed to a detector and the collimated excitation is directed away from the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: Packard Bioscience Corporation
    Inventors: Avery Osgood, Mack Schermer
  • IMAGING SYSTEM FOR AN OPTICAL SCANNER
    Publication number: 20020036271
    Abstract: An imaging system comprises three or more sources for providing exitation radiation of different wavelengths, an objective lens for focusing one or more of the exitation wavelengths onto a sample to produce fluorescent emission, and a mirror, configured as a geometric beamsplitter, disposed in the transmission path of the emission radiation and exitation radiation subsequent to reflection from the sample and collimation by the lens, wherein the mirror is utilized to reflect one of the collimated exitation and emission radiation such that the emission is directed to a detector and the collimated exitation is directed away from the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 1999
    Publication date: March 28, 2002
    Inventors: AVERY OSGOOD, MACK SCHERMER
  • Imaging system for an optical scanner
    Patent number: 6355934
    Abstract: An imaging system comprises three or more sources for providing excitation radiation of different wavelengths, an objective lens for focusing one or more of the exitation wavelengths onto a sample to produce fluorescent emission, and a mirror, configured as a geometric beamsplitter, disposed in the transmission path of the emission radiation and excitation radiation subsequent to reflection from the sample and collimation by the lens, wherein the mirror is utilized to reflect one of the collimated exitation and emission radiation such that the emission is directed to a detector and the collimated exitation is directed away from the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: Packard BioChip Technologies
    Inventors: Avery Osgood, Mack Schermer