Patents by Inventor Peter Louis Gebrian

Peter Louis Gebrian 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).

  • Merge stop gate for an automated laboratory sample handling worksystem
    Patent number: 8232103
    Abstract: A method for replacing a first sample carried on a moving secondary conveyor onto a moving primary conveyor at a potential interference point while the primary conveyor is transporting a second sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
    Inventors: Kerry Lynn Miller, Frank Jay Robb, Peter Louis Gebrian, Sandor Lajos Kovacs
  • Programmable random access sample handler for use within and automated laboratory system
    Patent number: 7681466
    Abstract: A method and a device for removing high priority samples from a primary conveyor and transferring such samples directly to an analyzer's sampling location even if other samples have been previously removed from the conveyor and are in a queue to be analyzed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
    Inventors: Kerry Lynn Miller, Peter Louis Gebrian
  • Multi-compartment reagent container having means to inhibit re-use thereof
    Patent number: 7661551
    Abstract: A method for automatically determining whether a reagent container is new and unused or whether the reagent container has been previously used whenever reagent containers are initially placed onto an analyzer. Unused containers have a flag or lock-out member that can be dislodged or relocated by a moveable sensor probe when containers are placed onto the analyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Louis Gebrian, William Jackson Devlin, Sr., Timothy Patrick Evers, Thai Huynh-Ba
  • Programmable Random Access Sample Handler For Use Within an Automated Laboratory System
    Publication number: 20080271546
    Abstract: A method and a device for removing high priority samples from a primary conveyor and transferring such samples directly to an analyzer's sampling location even if other samples have been previously removed from the conveyor and are in a queue to be analyzed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Applicant: DADE BEHRING INC.
    Inventors: Kerry Lynn Miller, Peter Louis Gebrian
  • Merge stop gate for an automated laboratory sample handling worksystem
    Publication number: 20080038827
    Abstract: A method for replacing a first sample carried on a moving secondary conveyor onto a moving primary conveyor at a potential interference point while the primary conveyor is transporting a second sample
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Kerry Lynn Miller, Frank Jay Robb, Peter Louis Gebrian, Sandor Lajos Kovacs
  • Bi-directional drivebelt tensioning device
    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
  • Random access reagent delivery system for use in an automatic clinical analyzer
    Patent number: 7169356
    Abstract: A random access reagent container handling system using a reagent container shuttle to move reagent containers between a loading tray and at least one linear reagent container tray and at least one circular reagent carousel. The reagent container tray is positioned as needed beneath the reagent container shuttle by a reagent tray shuttle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Louis Gebrian, Timothy Patrick Evers
  • Multi-compartment reagent container having means to inhibit re-use thereof
    Patent number: 6943030
    Abstract: A method for automatically determining whether a reagent container is new and unused or whether the reagent container has been previously used whenever reagent containers are initially placed onto an analyzer. Unused containers have a flag or lock-out member that can be dislodged or relocated by a moveable sensor probe when containers are placed onto the analyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Louis Gebrian, William Jackson Devlin, Sr., Timothy Patrick Evers, Thai Huynh-Ba
  • Reagent container and canister for use in an automated microbiological analyzer
    Patent number: 6855540
    Abstract: A cup-like broth container comprising four mutually opposed pairs of connected sidewalls with a protruding rib formed on each of four perpendicularly opposed single sidewalls and four Y-shaped clamping ridges attached to and extending outwardly from a single one of the four sidewalls located between the four sidewalls having a protruding rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Francis Farina, Peter Louis Gebrian, John Charles Mazza, Allan Lee Cameron, Alan Christopher Mudd, Richard O'Brien, David Orrin Swett, Adrian Mark Thomas West
  • Multi-compartment reagent container having means to inhibit re-use thereof
    Publication number: 20040217031
    Abstract: A method for automatically determining whether a reagent container is new and unused or whether the reagent container has been previously used whenever reagent containers are initially placed onto an analyzer. Unused containers have a flag or lock-out member that can be dislodged or relocated by a moveable sensor probe when containers are placed onto the analyzer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2004
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Inventors: Peter Louis Gebrian, William Jackson Devlin, Timothy Patrick Evers, Thai Huynh-Ba
  • Method for mixing liquid samples using a linear oscillation stroke
    Patent number: 6808304
    Abstract: A method for generating a vortex-like mixing action within a liquid held in a container by causing the container to move back and forth in a constant sinusoidal pattern at high speeds. Momentum forces acting upon the liquid solution cause it to generate an internal mixing motion of the liquid solution without the aid of extraneous mixing members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Louis Gebrian, Edward Francis Farina
  • Canister for inventorying identification test devices in an automated microbiological analyzer
    Patent number: 6776966
    Abstract: A closed elongate canister having a generally rectangular cross-section formed by a front wall, a five-section back wall and two side walls, the walls of dimensions to house a plurality of ID test rotors stacked one atop another within the canister.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Louis Gebrian, Allan Lee Cameron, Alan Christopher Mudd, Richard O'Brien, David Orrin Swett, Adrian Mark Thomas West
  • Method and apparatus for mixing liquid samples using a sinusoidal mixing action
    Publication number: 20040042339
    Abstract: A method for generating a vortex-like mixing action within a liquid held in a container by causing the container to move back and forth in a constant sinusoidal pattern at high speeds. Momentum forces acting upon the liquid solution cause it to generate an internal mixing motion of the liquid solution without the aid of extraneous mixing members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2002
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Peter Louis Gebrian, Edward Francis Farina
  • Indentification test device in a random access microbiological analyzer
    Patent number: 6653122
    Abstract: A circular shaped rotor to facilitate automated identification testing of microorganisms in a microbiology analyzer having two circular arrays of microwells downwardly projecting from the top of the rotor connected to a recessed central region by a plurality of microchannels formed in the upper surface and connecting the recessed central portion to the second plurality of microwells; the rotor is further adapted to be rotated by a source of rotational energy and moved throughout the analyzer using troughs formed near its outer diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Dade MicroScan Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Francis Farina, Bruce McLean Gemmell, John Charles Mazza, Michael Taylor McVey, Edward Stephen Kaminski, Antoine Elias Haddad, Peter Louis Gebrian
  • Canister for inventorying susceptability test devices in an automated microbiological analyzer
    Patent number: 6632654
    Abstract: An elongate canister having a generally rectangular cross-section sized to house a plurality of antibiotic susceptibility test arrays stacked one atop another and maintained secure within an environmentally controlled inventory chamber in a random access microbiological analyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Dade Microscan Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Louis Gebrian, Allan Lee Cameron, Alan Christopher Mudd, Patrick Francis McDermott, Adrian Mark Thomas West
  • Liquid flow and control in a biological test array
    Patent number: 6627432
    Abstract: A microbiological test array with a generally flat base having a plurality of upwardly projecting microwells connected by a microchannel to an open reservoir formed in a top surface generally parallel to the base of the test array. The reservoir has an opening to permit an inoculum-broth liquid solution to flow from the reservoir through the microchannel, to a sacrificial evaporation well having an air vent port adapted to control a vacuum filling process, and subsequently to be distributed into each of the plurality of microwells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Francis Farina, Samuel Garfield Ferguson, Jr., Peter Louis Gebrian, Frank Stephen Krufka, John Charles Mazza, Nicholas Michael Shmel, Jr.
  • Automated random access microbiological analyzer
    Patent number: 6573088
    Abstract: A random access microbiological analyzer for performing AST and ID tests on samples using on-board inventories of different AST test arrays and different ID test rotors within separate AST and ID incubation and analysis chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Dade Microscan Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce McLean Gemmell, John Charles Mazza, Peter Louis Gebrian, Nicholas Michael Shmel, Jr., Edward Francis Farina, Hemant Vaidya
  • Multi-compartment reagent container having means to inhibit re-use thereof
    Publication number: 20030049848
    Abstract: A method for automatically determining whether a reagent container is new and unused or whether the reagent container has been previously used whenever reagent containers are initially placed onto an analyzer. Unused containers have a flag or lock-out member that can be dislodged or relocated by a moveable sensor probe when containers are placed onto the analyzer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Inventors: Peter Louis Gebrian, William Jackson Devlin, Timothy Patrick Evers, Thai Huynh-Ba
  • Multi-compartment reagent container for containing reagents
    Patent number: D482454
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Louis Gebrian
  • Multi-well liquid container
    Patent number: D484989
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Louis Gebrian