Additives (e.g., buffers, diluents, preservatives)

Apparatus included in process claim (e.g., physical support structures, etc.)

Automated or kit

Multifield plates or multicontainer arrays

Tube, bottle, or dipstick

Automated chemical analysis

Condition or time responsive

With automated titrator

Utilizing a centrifuge or compartmented rotor

Utilizing a moving indicator strip or tape

With a continuously flowing sample or carrier stream

With formation of a segmented stream

With aspirator of claimed structure

With conveyance of sample along a test line in a container or rack

With step of insertion or removal from test line

With treatment or replacement of aspirator element (e.g., cleaning, etc.)

With sample on test slide

Biological cellular material tested

Biospecific ligand binding assay

Utilizing isolate of tissue or organ as binding agent

Radioactive label

B12 or folate

Blood gas (e.g., oxygen, carbon dioxide, blood, ph, etc.)

Breath testing

Cancer

Carbon containing

In an aqueous solution (e.g., toc, etc.)

Clotting or clotting factor level tests

Composition for standardization, calibration, simulation, stabilization, preparation or preservation; processes of use in preparation for chemical testing

Bilirubin or uric acid standard or control

Blood gas standard or control

Blood serum or blood plasma standard or control

Glucose, ketone, nitrate standard or control

Inorganic standards or controls

Lipid, cholesterol, or triglyceride standard or control

Particle count or volume standard or control (e.g., platelet count standards, etc.)

Preparation composition (e.g., lysing or precipitation, etc.)

Preservative, buffer, anticoagulant or diluent

Protein or peptide standard or control (e.g., hemoglobin, etc.)

Simulative of a gaseous composition

Condition responsive control

Cross-reference art collections 800 through 829 relate to antigen-antibody or binding protein tests.

Cross-reference art collections 900 through 910 relate to chemical analysis

Determination of water

By use of a cobalt, copper or nickel containing reagent

By use of a karl fischer reagent

In petroleum oil, hydrocarbon oil or organic fluid

Diazo reactions

Dosimeter

Drugs of abuse (e.g., narcotics, amphetamine, etc.)

Electrical property or magnetic property

Electron dense compounds (e.g., ferritin, etc.)

Element or inorganic compound

Fertility tests

Fetal lung maturity

Fluorescent dyes (e.g., rhodamine, etc.)

Food or dairy products

Dairy product

Milk or butter fat

Meat or eggs

Wine or alcoholic beverages

For preexisting immune complex or auto-immune disease

Antinuclear (e.g., dna, etc.)

Immune complex

Rheumatoid factors

Geochemical, geological, or geothermal exploration

For metallic ores

For petroleum oils or carbonaceous minerals

Removing and testing drilling mud or fluid

Removing and testing solid samples

Analyzing evolved gas

Evolving gas by acidification

In situ testing

Using chemical tracers

Gravimetric analysis

Halogen containing

Carbon containing compound (e.g., vinylchloride, etc.)

In aqueous solution

Hemoglobin, myoglobin, or occult blood

Glycosylated hemoglobin

Hepatitis associated antigens and antibodies

Heterocyclic carbon compound (i.e., o, s, n, se, te, as only ring hetero atom)

Diverse hetero atoms in same or different rings (e.g., alkaloids, opiates, etc.)

Hetero-n

Bile pigment

Plural nitrogen in the same ring (e.g., barbituates, creatinine, etc.)

Uric acid

Hetero-o (e.g., ascorbic acid, etc.)

Saccharide (e.g., dna, etc.)

Glucose

Hydrocarbon

Acyclic (e.g., methane, octane, isoparaffin, etc.)

Unsaturated (e.g., ethylene, diene, etc.)

Aromatic

Total hydrocarbon, flammability, combustibility (e.g., air-fuel mixture, etc.)

Hydrogen, per se

Identified hapten

Immunochemical pregnancy determination

Immunogenic carrier or carrier per se

Immunological separation techniques

Including chromatography

Utilizing paper or thin layer plate

Including sample preparation

Digestion or removing interfering materials

Dilution

Gaseous sample or with change of physical state

Liberation or purification of sample or separation of material from a sample (e.g., filtering, centrifuging, etc.)

Including use of a solid sorbent, semipermeable membrane, or liquid extraction

Stabilizing or preserving

Volumetric liquid transfer

Including titration or ph determination

Including use of radioactive properties

Dosage determination of high energy radiation, (e.g., use of an x-ray dosimeter, etc.)

Including pyrolysis of radioactive material

Inorganic acid or base (e.g., hcl, sulfuric acid, etc.)

Halogen containing

Sulfur containing

Involving an insoluble carrier for immobilizing immunochemicals

Carrier is a biological cell or cell fragment

Red blood cell

Fixation or stabilization of red blood cells

Lysis of red blood cell membrane

Carrier is inorganic

Glass or silica

Metal or metal coated

Magnetic

Carrier is organic

Antigen or antibody entrapped within the carrier (e.g., gel, hollow fiber, etc.)

Carrier is synthetic resin

Antigen or antibody attached to a carrier via bridging agent

Carrier is water suspendible particles (e.g., latex, etc.)

Carrier is water suspendible particles

Polysaccharide, carrier (e.g., dextran, etc.)

Cellulose or derivative

Carrier is particulate and the particles are of intentionally different sizes or impregnated differently with the immunochemicals

Involving antibody fragments

Involving complement factors or complement systems

Involving diffusion or migration of antigen or antibody

Through a gel (e.g., ouchterlony technique, etc.)

Immunoelectrophoresis

Involving iga, igd, ige, or igm

Involving immune complex formed in liquid phase

Separation of immune complex from unbound antigen or antibody

Absorbent column, particles or resin strip

Involving precipitating reagent

Double or second antibody

Involving radioactive labeling

Signal modification or steric inhibition

Involving kinetic measurement of antigen-antibody reaction

Involving producing or treating antigen or hapten

Producing labeled antigens

Fluorescent label

Radioactive label

Involving production or treatment of antibody

Monoclonal antibody

Iron-binding capacity of blood

Lectins

Lipids, triglycerides, cholesterol, or lipoproteins

Liposomes (e.g., encapsulation, etc.)

Lubricant, grease, mineral oil, hydrocarbon oil product, or fats or lipids for oxidation (e.g., breakdown products or contamination, etc.)

Acidity, basicity or neutralization number

Measurement includes change in volume or pressure

Measurement includes temperature change of the material being analyzed (e.g., calorimetry, etc.)

Measurement of electrical or magnetic property or thermal conductivity

By means of a solid body in contact with a fluid

Solid body contains a combustion catalyst

Of a liquid

Of an ionized gas

Flame ionization

Metal or metal containing

Cu, ag, au

Li, na, k, rb, cs, fr, be, mg, ca, sr, ba, ra

Mn, te, re, fe, ru, os, co, rh, ir, ni, pd, pt

Organometallic compound determined

Ge, sn, pb

Oxide or gas content of metal (e.g., determination of dissolved gases, etc.)

Presence of a component of steel

Present in biological fluids (e.g., blood, urine, etc.)

Ti, zr, hf, va, nb, ta, cr, mo, w

Zn, cd, hg, sc, y, or actinides, or lanthanides

Lanthanide or actinide

Miscellaneous

Multifunctional antigen or antibody

Nephelometry

Nitrogen containing

Amine and quaternary ammonium

Ammonia

Tertiary amine

Cyanide or isocyanide

N-nitroso containing (e.g., nitrosamine, etc.)

Nitrite or nitrate

Oxides of nitrogen

Both nitrogen oxide and dioxide

Only nitrogen dioxide

Total nitrogen determined

As part of an elemental analysis

Urea or blood urea nitrogen

Nuclear magnetic resonance, electron spin resonance or other spin effects or mass spectrometry

Optical property

Optical result

Including gas absorption in liquid or solid

Liquid sorbent

Including reagent preparation

Spectrum analysis (e.g., flame photometry, etc.)

With claimed manipulation of container to effect reaction or use of container of claimed optical structure

With fluorescence or luminescence

With reagent in absorbent or bibulous substrate

Plural superposed layers

Oxidation - reduction indicators

Oxygen containing

Carbonyl, ether, aldehyde or ketone containing

Carboxylic acid

Formaldehyde or acetone

Hydroxyl containing

Ethanol

Inorganic carbon compounds

Carbon monoxide only

Molecular oxygen

Dissolved or trace oxygen or oxygen content of a sealed environment

Fuel/air mixture or exhaust gas analysis

Ozone or peroxide

Oxygen demand (e.g., bod, tod, cod, etc.)

Peptide, protein or amino acid

Amino acid or sequencing procedure

Alpha or beta amino acid

Glycoproteins (e.g., hormone, etc.)

Albumin

Phosphorus containing

Of inorganic phosphorus compound in body fluid

Organic (e.g., chemical warfare agents, insecticides, etc.)

Photochemical activation of reactions

Pregnancy or ovulation

Pretreatment for removal of interfering factors from sample

Process or composition for determination of physical state or property by means including a chemical reaction

By thermoparticulating composition

Corrosion resistance or power

Leak detection

Of crystal or crystalline material

Surface area, porosity, imperfection, or alteration

Process or composition for sterility or package integrity test

Protein a

Protein-bacteriophage conjugates

Purity of steam or chemically inert gas

Pyrolysis, combustion, or elevated temperature conversion

Combustion with oxygen containing gas

Dividing or separating a sample stream

Explosibility

Multiple stages of heating or heating at multiple temperatures or application of temperature gradient

With catalyst or accelerator

Radioisotope (e.g., radioimmunoassay, etc.)

Rate of reaction determination

Related to chemical testing

Sedimentation rate or hematocrit

Silicon containing

Stabe free radicals (e.g., spin immunoassay, etc.)

Sulfur containing

Organic or sulfhydryl containing (e.g., mercaptan, hydrogen, sulfide, etc.)

Only hydrogen sulfide

Sulfur dioxide

Total or elemental sulfur

Synthetic or natural resin

Test for named compound or class of compounds

Alkaloids, amphetamines, and barbiturates

Steroids or hormones

Human chorionic gonadotropin

Test for named disease, body condition or organ function

Cancer

Infectious mononucleosis

Pregnancy

Testing of catalyst

Thyroid hormone tests (e.g., t3, t4, tbg, tsh, etc.)

Tracers or tags

Using activated specie

With use of condensation nuclei