Appeal No. 2005-1234 Page 3
Application No. 09/749,752
means for storing the management information in association with the
information concerning the positions of the probes to which the target substance
has bound,
wherein obtaining the information concerning the positions of the probes
to which the target substance has bound occurs simultaneously with detecting
the management information attached to the test piece.
21. An analysis system for analyzing a target substance by causing the target
substance marked with a marker to bind selectively to some of plural types of
probes arranged and fixed on a test piece and detecting positions of the probes
to which the target substance has bound comprising:
means for attaching encoded management information to a predetermined
location on the test piece as ID information peculiar to the test piece,
means for obtaining information concerning the positions of the probes to
which the target substance has bound,
means for detecting the ID information attached to the test piece,
first storing means for storing the management information in association
with the ID information,
means for decoding the detected ID information by searching through the
first storing means referring to the detected ID information to find the
management information associated with the detected ID information, and
second storing means for storing the management information in
association with the information concerning the positions of the probes to which
the target substance has bound,
wherein obtaining information concerning the positions of the probes to
which the target substance has bound occurs simultaneously with detecting the
ID information attached to the test piece.
The examiner relies upon the following references:
Perttunen et al. (Perttunen) 5,968,728 Oct. 19,1999
Zeleny et al. (Zeleny) 6,215,894 Apr. 10, 2001
Noblett 6,362,004 Mar. 26, 2002
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