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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2009
Methods and systems for efficient automatic slide staining in immunohistochemistry sample processing
Saradha Avantsa, Concord, CA (US);
Ravishankar Melkote, Fremont, CA (US);
Thomas Maxwell, Danville, CA (US);
Geoffrey Cook, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Saradha Avantsa, Concord, CA (US);
Ravishankar Melkote, Fremont, CA (US);
Thomas Maxwell, Danville, CA (US);
Geoffrey Cook, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Biocare Medical, LLC, Concord, CA (US);
Abstract
Automated sample processing systems may include onboard efficient high-speed mixing of at least two components with an automatic vertical force fluidic turbulent component mixer of which a mixed component may be aspirated and high-speed dispensed in a mixing vial. Other aspects may include single sweep applying a multi-treatment cleaning cycle to at least one slide. A multi-treatment cleaning cycle may include a washing treatment and a drying treatment. In yet other aspects the present invention may include an automated recovery sample processing system with the capability of detecting at least one immediate condition of a fortuitously terminated automatic sample processing run and perhaps even an automatic terminated sample processing run reconstruction calculator.