DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CROSS-REFERENCING
First Claim
1. An identification method comprising:
- receiving, by the computer, identification information for a tissue support;
outputting, on a screen of the computer, data related to the received identification information;
automatically verifying, by the computer, that no other tissue support is currently being identified at a particular station tied to the computer; and
processing, based on the output data, a tissue on the tissue support if no errors are detected during said verifying,wherein the verifying comprises determining if said other tissue support is currently being identified at the particular station, andwherein if the determining yields that said other tissue support is currently being identified at the particular station, outputting an error indicator.
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Abstract
A sample, embedded in a paraffin block, is placed on a tissue cassette which carries a label which may be a bar code. When the sample is processed, the cassette is given to a microtome operator who scans the label. Scanning causes information to be displayed on a screen and the operator verifies that what is on the screen matches what was on the label. The paraffin block is then placed in a microtome chuck and sections are cut from the block. A number of slide labels related to the cassette label are printed for the sections. If the operator does not verify that the information displayed on the screen matches the information on the cassette label and/or does not place the paraffin block in the microtome chuck within an allocated time interval after scanning the cassette label, dispensing and labeling of slides and/or operation of the microtome is prevented.
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28 Claims
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1. An identification method comprising:
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receiving, by the computer, identification information for a tissue support; outputting, on a screen of the computer, data related to the received identification information; automatically verifying, by the computer, that no other tissue support is currently being identified at a particular station tied to the computer; and processing, based on the output data, a tissue on the tissue support if no errors are detected during said verifying, wherein the verifying comprises determining if said other tissue support is currently being identified at the particular station, and wherein if the determining yields that said other tissue support is currently being identified at the particular station, outputting an error indicator. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. An identification and processing apparatus comprising:
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a reader which reads identification information for a tissue support; a display which displays on a screen of a computer data related to the read identification information; and a processor which verifies that no other tissue support is currently being identified at a particular station tied to the processor, and which generates identification information for a plurality of tissue holders, based on the displayed data if no errors are detected during said verifying, wherein the processor performs the verification by determining if said other tissue support is currently being identified at a particular station, and wherein if the processor determines that said other tissue support is currently being identified at a particular station, the processor controls the display to output an error indicator. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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