Enhanced fluidic method and apparatus for automated rapid immunohistochemistry

US8058010B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Celerus Diagnostics, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Page A. Erickson · Goleta, US
• Michael R. Everman · Goleta, US
• Michael S. G. Bell · Lompoc, US
• Kevin S. Edberg · Lompoc, US
• Matthew Murray Botke · Ojai, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 21, 2006
• Grant date: Nov 15, 2011
• Expiry date: Jul 18, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T436/113332
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A sample processing system that may be configured to achieve rapid sample processing such as rapid histochemical processing may involve a wave element that can use angular microscopic slide movements to cause repeated elimination and reapplication of a fluidic substance perhaps through the action of capillary motion in order to refresh a microenvironment adjacent to a sample such as a biopsy or other such sample. Through such refreshing of a microenvironment, depletion of the microenvironment is avoided and the time necessary for slide processing may be dramatically shortened.