Patents by Inventor Samuel Garfield Ferguson, Jr.

Samuel Garfield Ferguson, Jr. 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).

  • System for automatically storing and reprocessing patient samples in an automatic clinical analyzer
    Patent number: 7641855
    Abstract: A system for automatically testing a sample aliquot retained in temporary storage in environmentally controlled conditions on an automated clinical analyzer for a period of time without requiring operator intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Francis Farina, Russell John Butler, Samuel Garfield Ferguson, Jr.
  • Stackable aliquot vessel array
    Patent number: 6752967
    Abstract: An aliquot vessel array having notched side flanges and rails of a next adjacent so that a plurality of arrays may be attached one atop another in a secure stack. Stacked aliquot vessel arrays may be simultaneously loaded into a storage unit on an automatic analyzer and automatically dispensed into a sampling track as required. The aliquot vessel array has certain handling features to ensure safe and reliable movement between the storage unit and sampling tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Dade Behring Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Francis Farina, Samuel Garfield Ferguson, Jr.
  • 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.