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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8101404 | Plasma extraction apparatus A system that is suitable for extracting plasma from blood received from a blood supply is provided. The system comprises a housing, an inlet opening for receiving the blood, a filtration chamber comprising a membrane, and a plasma compartment. The membrane forms a ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8021872 | Flow cytometry for high throughput screening The present invention, provides a flow cytometry apparatus for the detection of particles from a plurality of samples comprising: means for moving a plurality of samples comprising particles from a plurality of respective source wells into a fluid flow stream; means... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8008066 | System for performing multi-formatted assays An automated analyzer for performing multiple diagnostic assays simultaneously includes multiple stations in which discrete aspects of the assay are performed on fluid samples contained in sample vessels. The analyzer includes stations for automatically preparing a ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7816124 | Diagnostic whole blood and plasma apparatus An apparatus suitable for measuring at least one plasma analyte in plasma extracted from a whole blood sample within the apparatus is provided. The apparatus can be adapted for insertion into a slot in a meter, which can preferably perform at least spectroscopic or ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7807449 | Nucleic acid amplification reaction station for disposable test devices An instrument for conducting nucleic acid amplification reactions in a disposable test device. The test device includes a first reaction chamber containing a first nucleic acid amplification reagent (e.g., primers and nucleotides) and a second reaction chamber eithe... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7807450 | Plasma extraction apparatus A system that is suitable for extracting plasma from blood received from a blood supply is provided. The system comprises a housing, an inlet opening for receiving the blood, a filtration chamber comprising a membrane, and a plasma compartment. The membrane forms a ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7799559 | Culture microscope apparatus A culture microscope apparatus has an illumination unit to apply excitation light to the specimen, a specimen observing portion to observe light generated from the specimen due to the excitation light, and a dimmer unit to dim the excitation light that has penetrate... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7795010 | Fractionator and method of fractionation The following is disclosed: (1) a membrane fractionator including a filtration section, a concentrating section, a recovery section and a liquid feed pump, wherein a flow channel connecting the filtration section, concentrating section and recovery section to each o... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7718420 | Microfluidic biochip for blood typing based on agglutination reaction The present invention is directed to a microfluidic biochip based on an agglutination reaction that is frequently used in qualitative typing in the diagnostic medicine field by realizing a specimen inlet, a reagent inlet, a split microchannel, transfer microchannels... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7700346 | Tissue characteristic determination apparatus The tissue characteristic determination apparatus capable of determining the characteristics of the tissues collected from a living organism is described, a representative one of which includes: a first data obtainer for obtaining first data reflecting the activity ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7666665 | Low adsorption surface A device comprising an analytical sample substrate having at least one region that comprises a plurality of sample-support-structures. Each of the sample-support-structures have at least one dimension of about 1 millimeter or less. A sum of areas of contact surfaces... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7632675 | Apparatus and method for manipulating substrates This disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for manipulating chambers and other substrates for chemical, biological, or biochemical samples, such as cell culture and other chambers, within units such as incubators. In certain embodiments, the invention ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7632674 | Apparatus for stimulating an animal cell and recording its physiological signal and production and use methods thereof The present invention provides an apparatus for stimulating an animal cell and recording its physiological signal and methods of making and using thereof. The purpose of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for stimulating an animal cell and recording it... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7629165 | Diagnostic device and method A method of separating a cell-containing sample into a substantially cell-depleted portion, and a cell-containing portion comprising at least one of a stem cell, a lymphocyte, and a leukocyte comprises a step in which the sample is received in a vessel with at least... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7504252 | Apparatus and methods for scanning and producing biological specimen film strips A biological specimen film reel, a biological specimen film assembler, and a biological specimen scanner are provided. The biological specimen film reel comprises a reel carrying a film having a plurality of biological specimens disposed thereon. The biological spec... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7438856 | Microfluidic devices and methods Embodiments of the invention are directed to microfluidic devices. In one embodiment, a microanalysis chip comprises a body having at least one transfer-separation channel with a channel bottom that has a bottom opening. The transfer-separation channel terminates in... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7435576 | Filter snapper A device for applying an axial compressive force to a fluid contamination detection system comprising a cup joined by a frangible connection to a filter ring, the force being sufficient to break the frangible connection and collapse a portion of the ring into the cu... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7435383 | Automated tissue staining system and reagent container An automated staining system and a reagent container designed for use with the automated staining apparatus. The reagent container includes a reagent containment section capable of containing a volume of a reagent. The reagent containment section includes an upper w... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7427501 | System and method for optically monitoring the concentration of a gas, or the pressure, in a sample vial to detect sample growth A system and method employing infrared laser spectrography and dual wavelength modulation to monitor the concentration of a gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide, in the sample vial, or to monitor the pressure in the sample vial, to thus detect for microorganism gro... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7407797 | Apparatus for monitoring bioluminescence of biological samples An apparatus of monitoring the bioluminescence of organism samples comprises a culture part including a plurality of plates for putting plural organism samples and capable of cultivating said plural organism samples, a monitoring part for monitoring bioluminescences... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7390652 | Device for cultivating cells and propagating viruses This invention relates to methods for the cultivating cells, and in particular to methods for propagating viruses. ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7387898 | Apparatus and method for conducting assays A multi-well assay plate structure (54) and assay apparatus and a method for performing chemical biochemical assays is described. The multi-well assay plate structure (54) defines a relatively shallow substantially enclosed space (71) above a pl... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7384733 | Interface patch clamping The invention provides a novel development of the conventional patch clamp technique for measurement of whole cell electrical activity. The invention provides for one or more cell or cells to be suspended in a liquid medium at a liquid/air interface (by virtue of th... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7378270 | Device for analyte measurement A biochemical analysis instrument for multiple fluid analyses includes a housing. A sensor for sensing a reaction is disposed in the housing. An aperture is formed in the housing. A test tape housing area is formed in the housing, and the sensor is disposed to selec... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7368084 | Flow cytometry for high throughput screening The present invention, provides a flow cytometry apparatus for the detection of particles from a plurality of samples comprising: means for moving a plurality of samples comprising particles from a plurality of respective source wells into a fluid flow stream; means... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7349158 | Diffraction grating-based encoded micro-particles for multiplexed experiments Microparticles 8 includes an optical substrate 10 having at least one diffraction grating 12 disposed therein. The grating 12 having a plurality of colocated pitches Λ which represent a unique identification digital code that is detected... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339671 | Apparatus and method for monitoring biological cell culture An apparatus and method for real-time and on-line monitoring the cell growth and concentration in a dynamic cell culture environment, with techniques that suppressing noise from ambient light, non-uniform scattering distribution, bubble and interface reflection effe... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7326565 | Storage apparatus The invention provides an incubator 1 wherein a microplate transport device 5 is disposed inside a chamber 11 centrally thereof. The transport device 5 comprises a transport table 50 for placing a microplate thereon and is capable ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7320775 | Exchangeable flow cell assembly with a suspended capillary There is provided a flow cell assembly in which a shuttle supports and positions a capillary with its end extending beyond the shuttle. The flow cell assembly facilitates the replacement of a flow cell which is damaged or with flow cells having capillaries of differ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319031 | Mounting platform for biological growth plate scanner The invention is directed to a biological scanner for scanning biological growth plates. A biological growth plate can be loaded into the biological scanner. Upon loading of a biological growth plate, the biological scanner generates an image of the plate and may pe... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7303729 | Apparatus and method for immunological labeling for thin tissue sections An apparatus and a method for immunological labeling of thin tissue sections are disclosed. The treatment fluid is applied in the form of liquid droplets onto at least one slide, the arrangement of liquid droplets corresponding to the arrangement of the thin tissue ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7303725 | Automated high volume slide staining system An automated slide processing apparatus includes a plurality of work stations arranged in a stack, and a transport/elevator for transporting slides between the various work stations. ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7297529 | Method and apparatus for performing a lateral flow assay An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for performing a lateral flow assay. The method includes depositing a sample on a test strip at an application region, detecting a first detection signal arising from the test strip in the first detection zone... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7294503 | Microfabricated crossflow devices and methods A microfluidic device for analyzing and/or sorting biological materials (e.g., molecules such as polynucleotides and polypeptides, including proteins and enzymes; viruses and cells) and methods for its use are provided. The device and methods of the invention are us... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7282329 | Suspended microchannel detectors An apparatus for detecting an analyte in solution that has a suspended beam containing at least one microfluidic channel containing a capture ligand that bonds to or reacts with an analyte. The apparatus also includes at least one detector for measuring a change in ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7276368 | Enhanced waveguide and method The present invention provides an optical assay apparatus that includes a light source module and an optical sensor. The light source module produces light having a range of propagation angles. The sensor includes a light adjusting portion and an assay sensing porti... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7270786 | Methods and systems for processing microfluidic samples of particle containing fluids The present invention relates to a microfluidic system for processing a cell-containing liquid. The system includes a microfabricated substrate having an enrichment channel to prepare an enriched cell sample from the cell-containing liquid. A flow through member is ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267795 | Incubator for use in an automated diagnostic analyzer An automated analyzer for performing multiple diagnostic assays simultaneously includes multiple stations, or modules, in which discrete aspects of the assay are performed on fluid samples contained in reaction receptacles. The analyzer includes stations for automat... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7264961 | Reaction system for thermal cycling Method and apparatus for carrying out a thermal cycling reaction, wherein a succession of samples is conveyed through a series of sequentially arranged temperature control sites, each of the sites comprising means for supplying an electric current to, or inducing an... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263501 | Point-of-care inventory management system and method A system and method are disclosed for controlling an inventory of a plurality of point-of-care diagnostic devices. The plurality of devices includes at least one type of device. Each device is configured to perform at least one sample analysis. Each device has a usa... | 08/28/2007 |
