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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 1988
Filed:
Sep. 26, 1985
Harden M McConnell, Stanford, CA (US);
Jonathan Briggs, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John W Parce, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Molecular Devices Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for determining a characteristic of a signal modulating component related to an analyte of interest at an assay site by measuring light modulated by the component. A light source uniformly illuminates the assay site and a reference site. The light is directed from the sites onto a group of memory cells on the surface of a random access memory. The memory cells will decay from a logical 1 to a logical 0 due to the light over a period of time which is a function of the intensity of the light and the reference voltage of the memory cells marking the difference between a 1 and a 0. The digital state of each of the memory cells in the group is measured a predetermined exposure time. The measured states of a group of memory cells corresponding to the assay site are compared to the memory cell states for a reference group. The measured states are then analyzed to determine a characteristic of the analyte.