Patent ID: 7731811

Claim:
A point-of-use method of making a coated analytic substrate and applying a biological specimen thereto, comprising: providing an automatic coating apparatus; providing an analytic substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface; using the automatic coating apparatus to apply a coating composition to only one of the upper surface and lower surface of the analytic substrate forming a coated analytic substrate having a coated surface thereon, wherein the coating composition comprises a silane, siloxane, silicone, silicon fluid, polysiloxane, fluorosilane, organosilane, organofunctional silane, or a combination thereof; and placing a biological specimen upon a portion of the coated surface of the coated analytic substrate wherein the biological specimen becomes bound to the coated analytic substrate via the coating composition of the coated surface upon which the biological specimen is placed, and wherein the coating composition is applied to the analytic substrate by the automatic coating apparatus at the same point-of-use where the biological specimen is placed on the coated analytic substrate.