US 12,383,905 B2
Specimen holder with wireless transponder for attachment to specimen collection body
Brian Joseph Bixon, Jersey City, NJ (US); Chengxi Li, Jersey City, NJ (US); and Alan Murray, New York, NY (US)
Assigned to TMRW Life Sciences, Inc., New York, NY (US)
Filed by TMRW Life Sciences, Inc., New York, NY (US)
Filed on May 24, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/674,493.
Application 18/674,493 is a continuation of application No. 17/547,094, filed on Dec. 9, 2021, granted, now 12,017,227.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/123,959, filed on Dec. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0382968 A1, Nov. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. B01L 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC B01L 3/54 (2013.01) [B01L 3/561 (2013.01); B01L 2200/0689 (2013.01); B01L 2200/12 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0832 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of assembling a specimen holder, the method comprising:
attaching a wireless transponder to a sleeve;
attaching a distal portion of the sleeve to a proximal portion of a body, the body elongated along a body longitudinal axis, the proximal portion of the body opposite a distal portion of the body with respect to the body longitudinal axis, wherein the distal portion of the body includes a specimen retention surface;
moving at least one of the sleeve and the body relative to the other of the sleeve and the body in a first direction that is parallel to the body longitudinal axis;
moving a first surface carried by a movable member away from the body longitudinal axis while moving at least one of the sleeve and the body relative to the other of the sleeve and the body;
moving the first surface carried by the movable member toward the body longitudinal axis while moving at least one of the sleeve and the body relative to the other of the sleeve and the body;
aligning the first surface with a second surface thereby blocking movement of the sleeve relative to the body along one direction parallel to the body longitudinal axis after moving at least one of the sleeve and the body relative to the other of the sleeve and the body;
aligning a third surface with a fourth surface thereby blocking movement of the sleeve relative to the body along the other direction parallel to the body longitudinal axis; and
securing the sleeve to the body such that motion of the sleeve relative to the body parallel to the body longitudinal axis is prevented,
wherein one of the body and the sleeve carries the movable member and the other of the body and the sleeve includes the second surface, the one of the body and the sleeve includes the third surface, and the other of the body and the sleeve includes the fourth surface.