ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,771, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Augusta SpinCo Corp. (Milford, Mass.).
"Apparatus for inspecting blood culture bottles using imaging" was invented by Jingyun Zhang (Freeland, Md.) and Ammon David Lentz (York, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging module to obtain an image of an entire bottle in one image frame. The imaging module places the bottle in an auxiliary mirror module (AMM). The module has a quasi-conical shaped mirror which offers a reflection of the bottle placed in the AMM. That reflection is the source of an image obtained by an imaging assembly. The imaging assembly can be a lens/camera assembly or a p...