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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7875162 | Monitored separation device A device for separating and purifying useful quantities of particles comprises: a. an anolyte reservoir connected to an anode, the anolyte reservoir containing an electrophoresis buffer; b. a catholyte reservoir co... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7622027 | Biosensor electrophoresis The invention provides methods of detecting, purifying, quantifying, and separating molecules using an electrophoresis adapted biosensor. ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7425254 | Fractionation of macro-molecules using asymmetric pulsed field electrophoresis A method and apparatus for fractionation of charged macro-molecules such as DNA is provided. DNA solution is loaded into a matrix including an array of obstacles. An alternating electric field having two different fields at different orientations is applied. The alt... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7384527 | Electrophoresis apparatus and a plate therefor The invention provides an electrophoresis apparatus comprising an electrophoretic chamber containing at least on two-plate housing for a sieving matrix, each said at least one two-plate housing consisting of a cover plate and a plate for housing said sieving matrix,... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7341841 | Rapid microbial detection and antimicrobial susceptibility testing A method for the detection of microorganisms in a sample comprising contacting said sample with a biosensor concentration module, allowing microorganisms to grow for a first period of time and detecting growth of discrete microorganisms as an indication of the prese... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7329333 | Uniform laser excitation and detection in capillary array electrophoresis system and method A capillary electrophoresis system comprises capillaries positioned in parallel to each other forming a plane. The capillaries are configured to allow samples to migrate. A light source is configured to illuminate the capillaries and the samples therein. This causes... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327459 | Fluorescence detector for detecting microfluid An ultra small fluorescence detector capable of detecting in real time reaction undergoing in a micro chamber having a predetermined volume and disposed on a microfluid chip is provided. The fluorescence detector for detecting in real time PCR amplification undergoi... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324703 | Method and system for correcting the effect of non-uniform illumination A system and a method are provided for correcting the effect of non-uniform illumination on a reproduced image of a 2-D object. An image of a reference card in an illuminated setting is captured by an image capturing device. A 2-D object is placed in the same illumi... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7309409 | Multi-channel bio-separation cartridge A bio-separation system using an efficient, compact, portable, interchangeable, reusable, recyclable, multi-channel cartridge, has integrated pre-aligned optics and an integrated reagent reservoir. The cartridge supports, for example, multiple capillaries for CE sep... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7294589 | Laser irradiation apparatus An object is to obtain an even energy distribution of a laser beam in one direction, thereby conducting a uniform laser annealing on a film. A laser irradiation apparatus comprising: a lens for dividing a laser beam in one direction; and an optical system for... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7288229 | Parallel reactor with sensing of internal properties An apparatus and method for carrying out and monitoring the progress and properties of multiple reactions is disclosed. The method and apparatus are especially useful for synthesizing, screening, and characterizing combinatorial libraries, but also offer significant... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7272509 | Managing product information A set of product information is acquired that describes a first chemical product that is suitable for a particular use. A second chemical product that is suitable for the particular use is determined from the set of product information and a database of chemical pro... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7259849 | Optical system for micro analyzing system There is provided an optical system 8 for a micro analyzing system capable of precisely analyzing a sample. In the optical system 8, after light beams leaving the tip of an optical fiber 14 pass through a condensing part 13, a sample movi... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7217352 | Capillary electrophoresis device An electrophoresis device is disclosed that is capable of reducing waves occurring in a fluid in which the capillary tips of a capillary assay are immersed. A plurality of partition plate members can be provided in a container containing the fluid to divide the surf... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7208072 | Multi-segment cartridge for bio-separation with multiplexed fluorescence detection A bio-separation instrument using a multi-segment cartridge. The cartridge includes a plurality of efficient, compact, portable, interchangeable, reusable, recyclable, modular, multi-channel segments. Each segment supports multiple capillaries for CE separation. Eac... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7147762 | Method of electrophoresis The present invention relates a method of electrophoretic separation of protein and/or peptide components of a sample in a convection stabilized medium. More specifically, the method comprises the steps to contact the sample with the separation medium; to apply a vo... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7135101 | Cassette assembly for electrophoresis gels This invention is directed to a cassette for electrophoresis gels comprising: first and second planar wall members having inner and outer surfaces, top and bottom edges, and lateral edges wherein the wall members are oriented generally parallel to each other and suc... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7118662 | Electrophoresis apparatus The windows 5a, 5b are configured so that the thickness of the upper and lower parts of the substrate formed therein with the channels becomes thinner in these parts than in other parts. An air space is defined in the vicinity of the one ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7074311 | Biosensor electrophoresis The invention provides methods of detecting, purifying, quantifying, and separating molecules using an electrophoresis adapted biosensor. ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7019831 | Separation device substrate including non-fluorescent quencher dye A device is provided for the analysis of samples. The device includes a plurality of sample-containment features and a non-fluorescent quenching material for minimizing cross-talk between optical signals emitted from or directed toward the sample-containment feature... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7006215 | Shaped illumination geometry and intensity using a diffractive optical element A method and apparatus to illuminate a target. The apparatus can comprise a first lens configured to receive light from the light source, a diffractive optical element configured to receive the light from the first lens and to regulate the light into regulated light... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6992303 | Detecting emitters of electromagnetic radiation, in particular fluorophore labeled substances The performance of devices for the detection of fluorophore labelled substances in an electrophoretic separation medium is improved by rescanning lines or pixels which caused saturation of an electromagnetic radiation detecting means (19) at a lower gain, the... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6970492 | DUV and VUV laser with on-line pulse energy monitor A beam parameter monitoring unit for coupling with an excimer or molecular fluorine (F2) laser resonator that produces an output beam having a wavelength below 200 nm includes an on-line laser pulse energy detector. This, in turn, allows output pulse ener... | 11/29/2005 |
| RE38817 | Method and system for velocity-normalized position-based scanning A data collection method for scanning a scan window comprising one or more channels is described. In the method of the invention an integrated signal (S) is measured across a scan window including one or more channels using an integrating detector. Next, a velocity-... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6932895 | Automated electrophoresis gel manipulation apparatus An automated, computer controlled assembly is provided for continuously processing a large number of electrophoresis gels. The assembly includes a loading assembly for loading a gel onto a carrier, a gel staining assembly and a scanning and cutting assembly. The sta... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6921908 | Methods for fluorescence detection that minimizes undesirable background fluorescence The present invention provides a method for the excitation of a fluorescent sample and the measurement of the fluorescent emission. The method of the present invention has the advantage of significantly reducing the amount of background fluorescence. The method incl... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6837977 | Capillary electrophoresis method for screening for affinity ligands using a detectable competitive ligand The invention relates to a capillary electrophoresis-based method of screening complex materials for any unidentified affinity ligand that binds to a target of interest. The method subjects a plug of a mixture of the target and a complex material sample, and a separ... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6821402 | Spectral calibration of fluorescent polynucleotide separation apparatus The invention relates to methods, compositions, and systems for calibrating a fluorescent polynucleotide separation apparatus. One aspect of the invention is multiple color calibration standards and their use. A multiple color calibration standard is a mixture of at... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6811663 | Microelectrode system A microelectrode system suitable for use in preparative and analytical chemistry having a laminated structure with one or more apertures. In one embodiment a microelectrode system (1) comprises alternating layers of conductor (3) and dielectric (or ins... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6793790 | Sample collection system for gel electrophoresis An automatic sample collection system for use with an electrophoretic slab gel system is presented. The collection system can be used with a slab gel have one or more lanes. A detector is used to detect particle bands on the slab gel within a detection zone. Such de... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6613210 | Molecular imaging A method of imaging molecules of interest within a biological sample includes shining a UV light onto the sample and detecting the molecular UV absorption. Where the molecules of interest are themselves UV absorbers, the intrinsic absorption of those mole... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6596140 | Multi-channel capillary electrophoresis device and method Embodiments of a device and method are described which provide for control over the distortion of a sample zone upon exiting an electrophoresis separation channel. According to the teachings herein (i) the downstream regions of the channels, near the outl... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6576104 | Apparatus and method for reading gel electrophoresis pattern An apparatus and a method for reading a gel electrophoresis pattern can read the gel electrophoresis pattern of a sample, such as a nucleic acid and a protein, with high sensitivity and without requiring the use of an expensive device structure such as a ... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6554987 | Method and apparatus for alignment of signals for use in DNA base-calling Data traces from four channels of an automated electrophoresis detection apparatus are aligned by identifying peaks in each of the four data traces; optionally normalizing the data traces to achieve a uniform peak height; combining the four data traces in... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6540897 | Direct detection of histidine tagged biomolecules on electrophoretic gel A method is disclosed for the detection of a His-tagged target biomolecule while said molecule remains in the gel in which it has been separated from other constituents by electrophoresis. The method involves, while the separated His-tagged biomolecule re... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6524866 | Capillary electrophoretic method to detect target-binding ligands and to determine their relative affinities The invention relates to capillary electrophoretic methods for detecting ligands or hit compounds that can bind to a selected target at or above a selected binding strength. The method allows one to rank various ligands based on their relative affinity, i... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6491805 | Sample-analysis system with antisynchronously driven contactless conductivity detector In a differential condition, an electrophoresis system antisynchronously drives a longitudinally-separated pair of contactless drive electrodes, both of which are coupled to a detection electrode through a separation channel. In this condition, the system... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6488832 | Array based electrophoretic system for the analysis of multiple biological samples The present invention relates to an electrophoretic method to effect differential net migration, the extent of said migration being dependent on molecular size, of electrically charged macromolecules through a gel support in a single dimension, which meth... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6468409 | Method and apparatus for detecting substances An apparatus for detecting fluorophore labelled substances in an electrophoretic separation medium comprises illuminating means (1) for illuminating the fluorophore labelled substances (8), detecting means (7) for detecting fluorescence emitted by said fl... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6454925 | Device for electrophoresis and component therefor A device for electrophoresis includes a component formed with a pair of planar members such as glass substrates joined together one on top of the other such that a capillary is formed by a groove on the surface of at least one of these planar members. A m... | 09/24/2002 |
