US 2018/0005095 A1Published application

System and method for managing sample collection data and documentation

AssigneeRemediation Technologies, Inc.

InventorAlbert Russell Schindler, III

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Abstract

What is provided is a system and methods for more quickly, accurately, and efficiently collecting, tracking, and transmitting sample collection data and information. Specifically, this involves the generation of printed labels in the field comprising labels with barcodes corresponding to specific sample collection data and information. The labels are printed at the location of the sampling and applied on the outside of sample collection devices, such as bottles and coolers, for transport to desired environmental facilities. Each bar code is associated with a unique record number in the Electronic Chain of Custody (ECOC), corresponding to a specific sample. The collection information and data corresponding to the samples are automatically populated to databases in sample testing facilities upon scanning the barcodes. The ECOC is electronically transmitted to sample testing facilities prior to the arrival of the samples.

Claims24

Dependent claims

A system for managing collection data and information corresponding to a sample, the system comprising:

a mobile computing device configured to receive and transmit the collection data and information corresponding to the sample, the mobile computing device comprising a camera, a database, and a processor connected to the database;
a mobile software application having a user interface and configured to operate on the mobile computing device, the mobile software application is further configured to receive, sort, process, display, and transmit the collection data and information corresponding to the sample;
a label printer in communication with the mobile computing device, the label printer configured to receive the collection data and information corresponding to the sample and to print a label comprising a unique identifier specific for the sample in response to a first signal from the mobile software application;
a first sample collection device for collecting, storing, and transporting the sample, the label affixed to the outside of the first sample collection device at a sample collection site such that the unique identifier is entirely visible;
a computing system located remotely from the sample collection site, the computing system comprising a computing system database and a computing system processor connected to the computing system database, the computing system is configured to receive the collection data and information corresponding to the sample from the mobile software application;
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a barcode reader in communication with the computing system, the barcode reader configured to scan the unique identifier on the first sample collection device and to immediately populate the collection data and information corresponding to the sample in the computing system.

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A method for managing collection data and information corresponding to at least one sample using a mobile software application configured to operate on a mobile computing device, the method comprising:

(i) providing at least one first sample collection device to a first sample collector;
(ii) allowing the first sample collector to access the mobile software application on the mobile computing device;
(iii) receiving a set of instructions from the mobile software application for filling the first sample collection device;
(iv) sorting and processing the collection data and information corresponding to the at least one sample via the mobile software application;
(v) sending, via the mobile software application, a first signal to a label printer to print a label corresponding to the at least one first sample collection device, the label comprising a unique identifier specific for the at least one sample;
(vi) affixing the label to the at least one first sample collection device at a sample collection site;
(vii) delivering the at least one first sample collection device comprising the at least one sample and transmitting, via the mobile computing device, an electronic chain of custody corresponding to the at least one sample to a computing system located remotely from a sample collection site, the electronic chain of custody is transmitted to the computing system prior to delivery of the at least one first sample collection device;
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(viii) scanning the unique identifier on the at least one first sample collection device using a barcode reader in communication with the computing system to immediately populate the collection data and information corresponding to the at least one sample and the electronic chain of custody in the computing system.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/635,416Filed 28 Jun 2017
Priority: 30 Jun 2016
Published: 4 Jan 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

G06K 17/0022
Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups G06K1/00 - G06K15/00, e.g.…:…
B41J 3/4075
For marking on special material: tape printers; Label printers
G06K 1/121
Otherwise than by punching: by printing code marks
G06K 7/10554
By scanning of the records by radiation in the optical part of the electromagnetic spectrum: moving beam scanning