Patents by Inventor Steven Liebold

Steven Liebold 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).

  • Microplate mount system and sensing methods
    Patent number: 8614789
    Abstract: The invention is a microplate mounting system for mounting a microplate relative to an optical reader to control an angle of incidence of an interrogation beam at the microplate and includes a reference plane with at least one set of mount features that engage one or both of the bottom of the microplate and the skirt of the and a first positioning mechanism that provides a reversible and predetermined separation in the z direction between a plane formed by the bottom of the microplate and the reader, to control the angle of incidence of the interrogation beam at the microplate by reversibly controlling the relative positioning of the microplate in the z direction through the engagement between the bottom and/or skirt of the microplate and the at least one set of mount features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignees: PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc, Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: David Noblett, Robert E. Krug, Steven Liebold, Mark Francis Krol, David Andrew Pastel, Ravi Marala, Dawn Neumann
  • MICROPLATE MOUNT SYSTEM AND SENSING METHODS
    Publication number: 20110273706
    Abstract: The invention is a microplate mounting system for mounting a microplate relative to an optical reader to control an angle of incidence of an interrogation beam at the microplate and includes a reference plane with at least one set of mount features that engage one or both of the bottom of the microplate and the skirt of the and a first positioning mechanism that provides a reversible and predetermined separation in the z direction between a plane formed by the bottom of the microplate and the reader, to control the angle of incidence of the interrogation beam at the microplate by reversibly controlling the relative positioning of the microplate in the z direction through the engagement between the bottom and/or skirt of the microplate and the at least one set of mount features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: David Noblett, Robert E. Krug, Steven Liebold, Mark Francis Krol, David Andrew Pastel, Ravi Marala, Ken Neumann, Dawn Neumann