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Sample cassette for a diagnostic instrument

Granted 7 Jan 2014 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Wellstat Diagnostics, Llc · originally WELLSTAT DIAGNOSTICS, LLC

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Inventors: Nadine Wohlstadter, Charles Quentin Davis, Michael D. Nelson, Joseph N. K. Ullman +1 · Examiner: Anhdao Doan · AU 2914 · TC 2900

Application
29/420,961
filed 15 May 2012
Publication
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US D697226
granted 7 Jan 2014

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a right rear perspective view…

FIG. 1 is a right rear perspective view of a sample cassette for a diagnostic instrument showing our new design, where the top portion is optically opaque and the bottom portion is optically transparent;

FIG. 2 is a front right perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a top plan view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 8 is a left rear perspective view thereof; and,

FIG. 9 is a left front perspective view thereof.

The bottom view is plain and unornamented. The broken lines in FIG. 3 show environmental structure and elements depicted in broken lines form no part of the claimed design.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D24/225

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USUS-D718872-SS12 Dec 201418 Nov 2013grantedSample cassette for a diagnostic instrument
USUS-D728122-SS128 Apr 201518 Nov 2013grantedSample cassette for a diagnostic instrument
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AUAU-347568-SS18 Mar 20138 Nov 2012publishedSample cassete for a diagnostic instrument
CACA-148281-SS16 May 20142 Nov 2012grantedSample cassette for a diagnostic instrument
TWTW-D159880-SS11 Apr 20149 Nov 2012publishedSample cassette for a diagnostic instrument
TWTW-D164217-SS11 Nov 20149 Nov 2012publishedSample cassette for a diagnostic instrument

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