Apparatus and method for automated sample preparation and adaptor for use in the apparatus

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10330694
APP PUB NO 20160033543A1
SERIAL NO

14777044

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There is provided an automated biological-sample-processing system comprising a pipette, a column of solid-phase material to which nucleic acid binds, a transport apparatus, an air-piston apparatus and an adaptor for coupling the pipette to the transport apparatus and to the air-piston apparatus, in which the adaptor is removably engageable with the transport apparatus and the air-piston apparatus for movement with the transport apparatus during processing of the sample, is couplable to the pipette so that the transport apparatus is controllable to position the pipette and so that the air-piston apparatus is controllable to draw a liquid into the pipette and to expel the liquid from the pipette, and is engageable with the column, in which the adaptor comprises a filter for preventing liquid or aerosol transfer between the pipette or column and the air-piston apparatus.

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DIAGNOSTICS FOR THE REAL WORLD LTD845 EMBEDDED WAY SUITE 150 SAN JOSE CA 95138

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Allain, Jean-Pierre Cambridgeshire, GB 3 6
Blad, Torbjorn Kungsangen, SE 1 6
Duesbury, Paul Cambridgeshire, GB 4 32
Stankus, Philip Sussex, GB 3 0
Wisniewski, Craig Cambridgeshire, GB 2 20

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