Patent ID: 9289770
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: B01L,G01N

Claim Text:
1. A method of improving the receiving of specimen identifying information into a Lab Information System (LIS) or any database information system using an RFID Chip on a Specimen Transport Puck which is a Specimen Tube holding device, wherein: each individual puck holds an individual specimen tube with barcode information for laboratory testing, and is round, and has RFID chip at the bottom of said each puck wherein the puck has a groove design around the bottom circumference; using said grooves to convey the puck down on a conveyor line with said specimen top and said RFID chip at the bottom of the puck; reading the barcode information from the specimen tube and using an RFID reader beneath the conveyor line to write the barcode information to the RFID chip, removing said puck from the conveyor line and using said grooves to hold the puck onto sleeves that also hold the bottom RFID chip of the puck down on said sleeve; wherein said sleeve hold a plurality of pucks and a plurality of sleeves group together to form a rack with a holding clip or tay; reading the RFID chips of the pucks on said rack with a second RFID reader, to receive specimen information, identify individual position of the specimens in said rack and the location of specimens at various locations throughout the laboratory sending the specimen information, the identified individual position and the location of the specimen into the lab information system or any database information system, with date and time stamp or other relevant locating information, at various locations, when the specimen is sorted on the conveyor from the RFID reader beneath the conveyor on to sleeves when the grouped sleeves forming racks are transported from sorting area, when the grouped sleeves forming racks are received into the individual lab department areas, when the grouped sleeves forming racks are arranged for testing on instrument batches, when the grouped sleeves forming racks are removed from the departments, when the grouped sleeves forming racks are placed into long term storage for possible retrieval of specimen tube for additional testing, or other locations throughout the laboratory wherein this process improvement greatly reduces the manual labor cost over the manual receiving of the barcode information from each specimen using a barcode label on a tube and a barcode reader wherein this greatly improves the efficiency of specimen receiving information into the database information system.