US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics on March 31 for "Analyzer having automatic test type sensing" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,979, issued on March 31, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Analyzer having automatic test type sensing" was invented by Manish Deshpande (Newton, Mass.), Ethan Warner (North Attleboro, Mass.) and Emma Orton (Cranston, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated analyzer is described. The analyzer includes a housing, a consumable insert, a consumable support device, a reader and a control system. The housing has a sample port. The consumable insert has a consumable insert type and an identification component and receives a consumable. The consumable support device is disposed within the samp...