Patents by Inventor Markus Stephan Fuerst

Markus Stephan Fuerst 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).

  • Host apparatus and method providing calibration and reagent information to a measurement apparatus which makes use of a consumable reagent in a measuring process
    Patent number: 7883015
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods providing data such as, for example, calibration and reagent information (30) over a network (6) to a measurement apparatus (4) which makes use of a consumable reagent (18) in a measuring process are disclosed. The present invention permits a measurement apparatus (4) to download the necessary code assignment (24) and calibration data (32) of the consumable reagent (18) by means of an electronic communication protocol from a host (33). The host (33) can be a software application running on a host computer (34), another measurement apparatus (50, 58) with or without a code-key slot used to read a memory device providing the above mentioned information (30), a dedicated connectivity device, such as a docking station (44), a portable memory reader (48), a remote computer (54), and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Firedrich Karl Ackermann, Manfred Augstein, Timothy L. Beck, Markus Stephan Fuerst, Robert Lawrence Meek, Phillip Edgar Pash, Blaine Edward Ramey, Robert Paul Sabo, Matthew Carlyle Sauers, Joerg Schreiber, Wolfgang Walter, Seth Faulkner Williams, Frederick Leland Wittekind, III
  • Host Apparatus and Method Providing Calibration and Reagent Information to a Measurement Apparatus with Makes Use of a Consumable Reagent in a Measuring Process
    Publication number: 20080217407
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods providing data such as, for example, calibration and reagent information (30) over a network (6) to a measurement apparatus (4) which makes use of a consumable reagent (18) in a measuring process are disclosed. The present invention permits a measurement apparatus (4) to download the necessary code assignment (24) and calibration data (32) of the consumable reagent (18) by means of an electronic communication protocol from a host (33). The host (33) can be a software application running on a host computer (34), another measurement apparatus (50, 58) with or without a code-key slot used to read a memory device providing the above mentioned information (30), a dedicated connectivity device, such as a docking station (44), a portable memory reader (48), a remote computer (54), and combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Friedrich Karl Ackermann, Manfred Augstein, Timothy L. Beck, Markus Stephan Fuerst, Robert Lawrence Meek, Phillip Edgar Pash, Blaine Edward Ramey, Robert Paul Sabo, Matthew Carlyle Sauers, Joerg Schreiber, Wolfgang Walter, Seeth Faulkner Williams, Frederick Leland Wittekind
  • Host apparatus and method providing calibration and reagent information to a measurement apparatus which makes use of a consumable reagent in a measuring process
    Patent number: RE44345
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods providing data such as, for example, calibration and reagent information (30) over a network (6) to a measurement apparatus (4) which makes use of a consumable reagent (18) in a measuring process are disclosed. The present invention permits a measurement apparatus (4) to download the necessary code assignment (24) and calibration data (32) of the consumable reagent (18) by means of an electronic communication protocol from a host (33). The host (33) can be a software application running on a host computer (34), another measurement apparatus (50, 58) with or without a code-key slot used to read a memory device providing the above mentioned information (30), a dedicated connectivity device, such as a docking station (44), a portable memory reader (48), a remote computer (54), and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignees: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc., Roche Operations Ltd.
    Inventors: Friedrich Karl Ackermann, Manfred Augstein, Timothy L. Beck, Markus Stephan Fuerst, Robert Lawrence Meek, Philip Edgar Pash, Blaine Edward Ramey, Robert Paul Sabo, Matthew Carlyle Sauers, Joerg Schreiber, Wolfgang Walter, Seth Faulkner Williams, Frederick Leland Wittekind, III