公开(公告)号：US20250147061A1

公开(公告)日：2025-05-08

申请号：US19017141

申请日：2025-01-10

Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.

Inventor： Gabriele Piero Janner ,  Cho Yiu Ng ,  Shubin Ren

IPC: G01N35/04 ,  G01N35/00

Abstract: The disclosure refers to a method of operating a laboratory sample distribution system having: a plurality of carriers (4) having a number of n (n>3) carriers (4) each configured to carry one or more sample containers containing a sample to be analyzed by laboratory devices (3); a transport plane (1) configured to support to the plurality of carriers (4), wherein the transport plane (1) comprises a plurality of interconnected transport modules comprising a plurality of plane fields (5); and a driving device (13) configured to control movement of the plurality of carriers (4) along individual routes between the plurality of plane fields (5). The method comprises: moving the plurality of carriers (4) along the individual routes on the transport plane (1), wherein the moving, for each carrier, comprises executing at least once steps of reserving a route segment along the individual route, the route segment being provided by one or more plane fields of the plurality of plane fields (5), and moving the carrier (4) along the route segment; and preventing, for the plurality of carriers (4), a deadlock arrangement on the transport plane in which the plurality of carriers (4) block each other from further movement along the individual routes (6). The preventing is further comprising: determining, at a present operation time, a potential deadlock arrangement for the plurality of carriers (4) on the transport plane (1) at a future operation time, wherein the potential deadlock arrangement is assigned a number of n deadlock plane fields occupied by the plurality of carriers (4) in case of the potential deadlock arrangement; for a first carrier from the plurality of carriers (4) moving along a first individual route, reserving a first route segment ending with a first end plane field; and assigning a non-reserve flag to a next plane field which is next to the first end plane field along the first individual route. Further, a laboratory sample distribution system, and a laboratory automation system are provided.

公开(公告)号：US20240371479A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-07

申请号：US18636375

申请日：2024-04-16

Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.

Inventor： Michael Glauser ,  Oliver Gutmann ,  Gabriele Piero Janner ,  Emad Sarofim ,  Stephan Schweighauser ,  Marcel Thomann ,  Urs Vollenweider

IPC: G16H10/40

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for optimising an assignment of one or more medical samples to one or more analytical tests to be conducted on those medical samples. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining an initial assignment of the one or more medical samples to the one or more analytical tests; determining a compliance status for the or each medical sample, the compliance status indicating: (i) whether a sample quality metric of the or each medical sample violates an analytical test specification of the medical sample's assigned analytical test(s) in the initial assignment and/or (ii) whether the or each medical sample is unprocessable; and performing a mitigation action if one or more compliance status indicate: (i) that the sample quality metric of a given medical sample violates the analytical test specification and/or (ii) a given medical sample is unprocessable.

公开(公告)号：US20180080949A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-22

申请号：US15704017

申请日：2017-09-14

Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.

Inventor： Friedrich Jost ,  Stephan Korner ,  Rijk Edwin Oosterbroeck ,  Gabriele Piero Janner

IPC: G01N35/00 ,  G06F17/11 ,  G06Q10/06

CPC classification number: G01N35/0092 ,  G01N2035/0094 ,  G01N2035/0096 ,  G06F17/11 ,  G06Q10/06316 ,  G16H10/40

Abstract: A method is presented. The method includes receiving at least one order, generating one or more optimization problem instances using one or more resource descriptions of automated laboratory equipment, one or more protocol descriptions of the automated laboratory equipment, an objective function and the at least one order. The method further includes providing the one or more optimization problem instances as input to a constraint optimization solver and processing the one or more optimization problem instances by the constraint optimization solver to generate the schedule of operations to carry out the at least one order on the automated laboratory equipment.