Perkinelmer Health Sciences, Inc.

Corning Incorporated

Perkinelmer Las, Inc.

Robert E Krug

William J Austhof

Dennis Makowski

Daniel L Bantz

Mark Francis Krol

David Andrew Pastel

Steven Edward Liebold

Marek Turewicz

David Noblett

Ravi Marala

Ken Neumann

Marek Turewica

The invention is a microplate mounting system for mounting a microplate relative to an optical reader to control an angle of incidence of an interrogation beam at the microplate and includes a reference plane with at least one set of mount features that engage one or both of the bottom of the microplate and the skirt of the and a first positioning mechanism that provides a reversible and predetermined separation in the z direction between a plane formed by the bottom of the microplate and the reader, to control the angle of incidence of the interrogation beam at the microplate by reversibly controlling the relative positioning of the microplate in the z direction through the engagement between the bottom and/or skirt of the microplate and the at least one set of mount features.

Microplate mount system and sensing methods

A system for dispensing microdrops of reagent in small, precisely metered quantities maintains the fluid reagent to be dispensed in a reservoir under a controlled pressure. The reagent is dispensed through multiple nozzles connected to solenoid-actuated valves that control the flow of the reagent from the reservoir to the nozzles. Each valve is connected to one of the nozzles and electrical pulses are supplied separately to each of the valves to separately control the opening and closing of each valve to dispense predetermined quantities of the reagent through each nozzle at predetermined times.

Precision liquid dispensing system

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Naperville, IL, United States of America

Robert E Krug