Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Interlocking cap and vial
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Application No.: US17036307Application Date: 2020-09-29
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Publication No.: US11136617B2Publication Date: 2021-10-05
- Inventor: Byron J. Knight , David A. Buse , Norbert D. Hagen , David Opalsky , Tyler Moore , Anita Prasad , Bruce Richardson
- Applicant: Gen-Probe Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: Gen-Probe Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Gen-Probe Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.
- Agent Richard Wydeven; Charles B. Cappellari
- Main IPC: C12Q1/68
- IPC: C12Q1/68 ; B01L3/00 ; C12Q1/6806 ; G01N35/04 ; B01L7/00 ; C12Q1/686

Abstract:
A cap that is securable to a vial includes a plug configured for insertion into an open end of the vial. An upper portion of the cap defines a probe recess with an open top end and configured to receive a distal end of a probe of a pipettor inserted into the open top end, to frictionally secure the cap to an end of the probe. The cap includes a radially-oriented annular surface with one or more locking members depending from a periphery of the annular surface. The locking members are spaced from the plug and each locking member includes a radial locking groove and a radial locking ridge beneath the radial locking groove. A lip of the vial snaps into the radial locking groove above the radial locking ridge to secure the cap to the vial when the plug is inserted into the open end of the vial.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210017578A1 INTERLOCKING CAP AND VIAL Public/Granted day:2021-01-21
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