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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 14, 1998
Merrit Nyles Jacobs, Fairport, NY (US);
Davis Freeman, III, Rochester, NY (US);
James David Shaw, Hilton, NY (US);
James Samsoondar, Mississauga, CA;
Thomas Moffett, Mississauga, CA;
Ortho-Clinical Diagnostis, Inc., Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and method for detecting patient sample quality, and/or analytes, in the tip used to aspirate the patient sample liquid and then dispense it onto a slide test element. Spectrophotometric analysis is done on the liquid while still in the tip, by scanning the tip for transmittance in a light-tight enclosure, using NIR and adjacent visible radiation, and detecting the absorbance spectra of the liquid. Thereafter, or prior thereto, the liquid is dispensed onto a dried slide test element for assaying analytes that are not assayed spectrophotometrically, thus enhancing throughput.