Traceability for automated staining system

• US 8,580,568 B2
• Filed: 09/21/2011
• Issued: 11/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sakura Finetek USA Incorporated (Sakura Finetechnical Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sakura Finetek USA Incorporated (Sakura Finetechnical Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Evans, Robert E., Hartman, Anthony L., Suchter, Richard A., Lefebvre, Gilles
• Primary Examiner(s): Nagpaul, Jyoti
• Application Number:
  US13/238,575
• Publication Number:
  US 20130073941A1
• Time in Patent Office: 783 Days
• Field of Search: 422/536, 422 63- 67, 422/50, 422500-503, 436/50, 436/180
• US Class Current: 436/50
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 1/312 for samples mounted on planar substrates
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 35/00732 Identification of carriers, materials or components in automatic analysers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/177 of tables; using ruled lines
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 436/115831 Condition or time responsive
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 436/2575 Volumetric liquid transfer

Abstract

A method including automatically displaying information obtained from a first identifier associated with a slide and a second identifier associated with a reagent cartridge. The method further including generating a staining log based on the information obtained from the first identifier and the second identifier. A further method includes displaying a location of a slide within a sample processing system and information obtained from a first identifier associated with the slide in a first table and displaying a location of a reagent cartridge within a sample processing system and information obtained from a second identifier associated with the reagent cartridge in a second table. The first table is then aligned with the second table.

Claims

1. A method for verifying a processing protocol associated with a slide, the method comprising:

obtaining information from a first identifier associated with a slide and information from a second identifier associated with a reagent cartridge, and wherein the information obtained from the second identifier is associated with a processing protocol;

associating the information obtained from the first identifier with the information obtained from the second identifier;

automatically displaying the associated information;

verifying a correct processing protocol is associated with the slide based on the associated information; and

generating a staining log based on the information obtained from the first identifier and the second identifier.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the information obtained from the first identifier comprises information relating to a patient or a reagent to be applied to the slide.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the information obtained from the second identifier comprises information relating to a reagent associated with the reagent cartridge.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

displaying information obtained from a third identifier associated with a reaction station upon which the slide and reagent cartridge are mounted, wherein the information obtained from the third identifier comprises information relating to a location of the reaction station.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein displaying the information comprises displaying the information obtained from the first identifier in a first table and displaying the information obtained from the second identifier in a second table.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the first table comprises information identifying a location of the slide and the second table comprises information identifying a location of the reagent cartridge.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining whether the information obtained from the first identifier is the same as the information obtained from the second identifier; and

alerting a user of a mismatch when the information is not the same.