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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2018
Gen-probe Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Qualigen, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Scott S. Breidenthal, Oceanside, CA (US);
Richard S. Lee, San Diego, CA (US);
Norman C. Nelson, San Diego, CA (US);
Matthew J. Scott, Oceanside, CA (US);
Jason A. Taylor, Windham, NH (US);
GEN-PROBE INCORPORATED, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALIGEN, INC., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of processing a sample in a receptacle comprising a plurality of chambers. Each of the chambers is connected to at least one other chamber by a portal and at least a first one of the chambers is formed of a flexible material. The method includes the steps of causing gas bubbles contained in the first chamber to accumulate in a portion of the first chamber, applying a compressive external force to the first chamber to cause some or all of the liquid contents of the first chamber to flow into an interconnected second chamber through a portal connecting the first and second chambers; and preventing the gas bubbles accumulated in a portion of the first chamber from flowing through the portal into the second chamber.