Patents by Inventor Randy Kristopher Bower

Randy Kristopher Bower 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).

  • Failure detection in automated clinical analyzers
    Patent number: 8026101
    Abstract: The invention is a method for detecting failures in an analyzer for conducting clinical assays. Potential errors that can result in assay failures in an analyzer are identified, as are their potential sources. The probability that an error source so identified will result in a clinically significant error is also determined. Available potential detection measures corresponding to the source of potential errors are identified with a combination of such measures selected and implemented based on their probability of detecting such errors within an acceptable limit with a concomitant low probability of the false detection of an assay failure. Each of the measures selected are functionally independent of others chosen to address the source of the error and are not subject to the same inherent means of failed detection. Applications of the method in a clinical analyzer are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Randy Kristopher Bower, Stuart Gilmour MacDonald, James David Shaw, Mark Alan Simon, Michael Avdenko, Joseph John Dambra, David Donald Hyde, Merrit Nyles Jacobs, James Daniel Riall