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Granted Patent B2
US 12700014 · App. 18/601,034 · Granted Aug 4, 2026

Consumable data management

Inventors: Xinri Cong (Germantown, MD); Jerome Jackson (Phoenix, MD); Carl Stevens (Silver Spring, MD); Michael Vock (Loveland, OH); Jacob N. Wohlstadter (Potomac, MD)
Assignee: Meso Scale Technologies, LLC.
G06Q30/0201G01N35/00871G01N35/0099G01N35/04G01N35/1002G06F16/21G06F16/951G06Q10/06G06Q10/10G06Q30/0625G07C9/27G16H10/40G16Z99/00G01N2035/00881G01N2035/0425G01N2035/0475G16B50/00
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12700014
App. No.
18/601,034
Granted
Aug 4, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

In examples, a method of controlling customer access to an assay system comprises (a) receiving a system identifier; (b) identifying said system identifier, and (c) utilizing information obtained from the system identifier to perform one or more operations selected from: (i) enabling full access to said system and/or a consumable used in said system; (ii) enabling partial access to said system and/or a consumable used in said system; or (iii) denying access to said system and/or a consumable used in said system.

Claims (35)

1 . A non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing executable instructions which, when executed by a controller of an assay system, cause the controller to:

receive a consumable identifier from a consumable;

attempt to validate consumable data on the assay system using the consumable identifier; and

control access to the assay system based on results of the attempted validation.

2 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein executing the instructions causes the controller to process the consumable responsive to the attempt to validate being successful.

3 . The computer-readable medium of claim 2 , wherein executing the instructions causes the controller to output results of the processing to a display.

4 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein executing the instructions causes the controller to process the consumable responsive to the attempt to validate being unsuccessful.

5 . The computer-readable medium of claim 4 , wherein executing the instructions causes the controller to withhold results of the processing from a display.

6 . The computer-readable medium of claim 5 , wherein executing the instructions causes the controller to:

continue to withhold the results of the processing from the display until successful validation of the consumable data; and

output the results of the processing to the display upon successful validation of the consumable data.

7 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein executing the instructions causes the controller to identify the consumable using the consumable identifier.

8 . The computer-readable medium of claim 7 , wherein executing the instructions causes the controller to process the consumable using the identification.

9 . A non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing executable instructions which, when executed by a controller of an assay system, cause the controller to:

receive a consumable identifier from a consumable;

attempt to validate consumable data on the assay system using the consumable identifier;

responsive to the attempt to validate being successful, process the consumable and output results of the processing to a display; and

responsive to the attempt to validate being unsuccessful, process the consumable and withhold the results of the processing from the display.

10 . The computer-readable medium of claim 9 , wherein executing the instructions causes the controller to:

responsive to the attempt to validate being unsuccessful, continue to withhold the results of the processing from the display until successful validation of the consumable data, and output the results of the processing to the display upon successful validation of the consumable data.

11 . The computer-readable medium of claim 9 , wherein executing the instructions causes the controller to identify the consumable using the consumable identifier.

12 . The computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein executing the instructions causes the controller to process the consumable using the identification responsive to the attempt to validate being successful.

13 . A method of controlling access to an assay system, the method comprising:

receiving a consumable identifier from a consumable;

attempting to validate consumable data on the assay system using the consumable identifier; and

controlling access to the assay system based on results of the attempted validation.

14 . The method of claim 13 , further comprising processing the consumable responsive to the attempt to validate being successful.

15 . The method of claim 14 , further comprising outputting results of the processing to a display.

16 . The method of claim 13 , further comprising processing the consumable responsive to the attempt to validate being unsuccessful.

17 . The method of claim 16 , further comprising withholding results of the processing from a display.

18 . The method of claim 17 , further comprising:

continuing to withhold the results of the processing from the display until successful validation of the consumable data; and

outputting the results of the processing to the display upon successful validation of the consumable data.

19 . The method of claim 13 , further comprising identifying the consumable using the consumable identifier.

20 . The method of claim 19 , further comprising processing the consumable using the identification.