Patents by Inventor Kathleen L. Burns

Kathleen L. Burns 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).

  • Adaptive scheduling system and method for operating a biological sample analyzer with variable interval periods
    Patent number: 5576215
    Abstract: An improved biological sample analyzer, and a method and system for operation thereof, wherein instrument systems used to perform assays of the biological samples loaded into the analyzer are operated in accordance with a schedule developed by a scheduler routine. The scheduler routine determines interval periods between operations performed by the analyzer instrument systems on each biological sample as a function of an entered load list unless a fixed interval period between the operations is required and schedules instrument system operations and the determined interval periods. The biological system analyzer performs assays of the biological samples by operating the analyzer instrument systems in accordance with the developed schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Assignee: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: Kathleen L. Burns, Ilya Ratner, Jeanine T. Douglas, Erica J. Kline, Cass J. Grandone