Patent ID: 11940455
Assignee: ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. The consumable management system according to claim 1, wherein the detection unit is further configured to identify the consumables being removed and being replenished into the consumable storage cluster in order to:
validate the removal of the particular consumable to be retrieved,
positively identify each replenished consumable in order to update the inventory of consumables, and
track ad-hoc consumable removal and/or consumable replenishment and correspondingly update the inventory of consumables, wherein consumable removal and/or consumable replenishment is ad-hoc when no input indicative of a consumable demand and/or consumable replenishment intent is received by the interface related to the particular consumable being removed/replenished.