Patent ID: 9395284
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G01N

Claim Text:
1. An automated system for treating one or more tissue samples disposed on slides, the system comprising: a controller; a plurality of slide treatment modules arranged to receive ones of the slides; at least one fluid dispensing robot configured by the controller to dispense a plurality of reagents to said ones of the slides received in the slide treatment modules via an output nozzle disposed on the at least one fluid dispensing robot to treat said one or more tissue samples respectively; and at least one pumping means for pumping said reagents to the output nozzle of the at least one fluid dispensing robot from a plurality of reagent containers comprising said reagents, wherein: the at least one fluid dispensing robot is configured by the controller to dispense said reagents in a predetermined sequence for each of the slide treatment modules to treat the one or more tissue samples disposed on each of the slides independently, the at least one fluid dispensing robot comprises a fluid transfer probe (FTP) robot configured by the controller to dispense a plurality of high value reagents to said ones of the slides received in the slide treatment modules via an FTP nozzle disposed on the FTP robot to treat said one or more tissue samples respectively, and the FTP robot is further configured by the controller to move said slides from an input buffer module to the slide treatment modules using a transport device disposed on the FTP robot to releasably hold the slides.