Patents by Inventor Richard Ameling

Richard Ameling 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).

  • Device for transporting and holding microtiter plates
    Patent number: 7597848
    Abstract: A transport system for transporting and handling microtiter plates, for use in high throughput screening, diagnosis and/or combinatorial chemistry, comprising modules with devices for preparing specimens and/or introducing specimens, and/or for optical readout and/or for plate storage and/or devices for further processing steps or readout steps. The system includes an inter-modular transport system for transporting the microtiter plates between the different devices and at least one central transport system for asynchronous plate transfer between individual modules via input and output buffers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH, F. Hoffmann-LaRoche AG
    Inventors: Richard Ameling, Thilo Enderle, Christof Fattinger, Martin Gluch, Hansjoerg Tschirky