Owner Gen-Probe Incorporated

Inventors Kennedy, Mark R.; Carter, Nick M.; Kacian, Daniel L.

Agent Spruson & Ferguson

Pub. Number AU-B-2006235930

Parent 2002245655

Filing date 9 November 2006

Wipo publication date 30 November 2006

Acceptance publication date 12 March 2009

B01L 3/14 (2006.01) Containers or dishes for laboratory use, e.g. laboratory glassware - Test tubes

B65G 47/88 (2006.01) Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyers - Separating or stopping elements, e.g. fingers

B65G 49/07 (2006.01) Conveying systems characterised by their application for specified purposes not otherwise provided for - for semiconductor wafers

B65G 51/03 (2006.01) Non-mechanical conveying through pipes or tubes

G11B 5/84 (2006.01) Recording by magnetisation or demagnetisation of a record carrier - Processes or apparatus specially adapted for manufacturing record carriers

G11B 7/26 (2006.01) Recording or reproducing by optical means, e.g. recording using a thermal beam of optical radiation, reproducing using an optical beam at lower power - Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture of record carriers

H01L 21/67 (2006.01) Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or solid state devices or of parts thereof - Apparatus specially adapted for handling semiconductor or electric solid state devices during manufacture or treatment thereof

H01L 21/677 (2006.01) Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or solid state devices or of parts thereof