US 11,698,380 B2
Optimization-based load planning systems and methods for laboratory analyzers
Ahmet Tuysuzoglu, Jersey City, NJ (US); Yue Zhang, Jersey City, NJ (US); Michael Heydlauf, Cary, NC (US); and Luxi Zheng, Cary, NC (US)
Assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc., Tarrytown, NY (US)
Appl. No. 17/597,452
Filed by Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc., Tarrytown, NY (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 1, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/035507
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 6, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/015854, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 28, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/877,885, filed on Jul. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0214368 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. G01N 35/00 (2006.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); G16H 10/40 (2018.01); G16H 40/40 (2018.01)
CPC G01N 35/0092 (2013.01) [G01N 35/00613 (2013.01); G01N 35/00871 (2013.01); G16H 10/40 (2018.01); G16H 40/40 (2018.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); G01N 2035/0094 (2013.01); G01N 2035/00881 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method of optimization-based load planning for a laboratory analyzer system, comprising:
receiving, at a computer server, computer readable data comprising an inventory of a plurality of laboratory analyzers included in the laboratory analyzer system, types and numbers of requested tests to be performed by the laboratory analyzer system, and preferences or priorities related to operation of the laboratory analyzer system and to the types and numbers of requested tests to be performed;
determining, via an optimization-based load planning module executing on the computer server, a load plan for performing each of the requested tests in the laboratory analyzer system, the load plan comprising computer executable instructions configured to cause a system controller of the laboratory analyzer system to schedule and direct each of the requested tests to be performed at one or more selected laboratory analyzers of the laboratory analyzer system in accordance with one or more of the preferences or priorities; and
scheduling and directing, via the system controller executing the computer executable instructions of the load plan, each of the requested tests to be performed at one or more selected laboratory analyzers of the laboratory analyzer system in accordance with the one or more of the preferences or priorities.