Adhesive label with grid for microscope slide

• US 6,597,500 B1
• Filed: 11/22/2000
• Issued: 07/22/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Genetix Ltd. (Danaher Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Genetix Ltd. (Danaher Corporation)
• Inventors: Patel, Nishith, Burke, Julian
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, John R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): SMITH, JOHNNIE L
• Application Number:
  US09/717,070
• Time in Patent Office: 972 Days
• Field of Search: 359/397, 359/398, 359/396, 382/133
• US Class Current: 359/397
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00527 Sheets
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00529 DNA chips
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00533 essentially rectangular
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/0054 Means for coding or tagging the apparatus or the reagents
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00542 Alphanumeric characters
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00596 Solid-phase processes
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00605 the compounds being directly bound or immobilised to solid supports
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00608 DNA chips
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00612 the surface being inorganic
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00659 Two-dimensional arrays
• CPC Class Codes: C40B 70/00 Tags or labels specially adapted for combinatorial chemistry or libraries, e.g. fluorescent tags or bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 21/34 Microscope slides, e.g. mounting specimens on microscope slides
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/10 by an adhesive layer

Abstract

An adhesive label 3 for attaching to a microscope slide 1 is disclosed. The label 3 may have one or more grids or arrays 2 provided on it to help an operator to manually spot a microscope slide 1.

Claims

1. A microscope slide in combination with a self-adhesive label comprising:

a microscope slide having a front face upon which, in use, a sample to be analysed is deposited, and a rear face; and

a label including indicia means comprising at least one alpha-numeric grid wherein, when said label is attached, in use, to the rear face of said microscope slide, said at least one alpha-numeric grid is visible when viewed through said front face of said microscope slide and wherein said at least one alpha-numeric grid comprises an 8×

12 array.

2. The combination as claimed in claim 1, wherein characters forming said at least one alpha-numeric grid are printed as a mirror image of conventional alpha-numerics so that, when viewed in a mirror, numbers will appear as 0, 1, 2, 3 . . . n and characters will appear as A, B, C . . . Z.

3. An adhesive label for assisting the spotting of a microscope slide, said label having on one side an adhesive layer and on an opposed side a grid together with mirror images of alpha-numeric characters, wherein said grid comprises an 8×

12 array.

4. A method of transferring DNA samples from a microtitre plate to a microscope slide, comprising the steps of:

providing a microtitre plate with a plurality of DNA samples arranged in an array of samples;

providing a microscope slide having front and rear faces;

attaching a pre-printed label having at least one alpha-numeric grid to the rear face of said microscope slide, said alpha-numeric grid comprising an 8×

12 array; and

transferring DNA material from said microtitre plate to the front face of said microscope slide using the grid on said label as a guide.

5. A method of manually spotting a microscope slide, comprising the steps of:

attaching an adhesive gridded indicia means comprising an alpha-numeric grid comprising an 8×

12 array to an underside of said microscope slide; and

spotting said microscope slide using said indicia means as a guide, with the indicia means being viewed through the microscope slide.