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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 1988
Filed:
Jun. 16, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
P N Nayak, Yarmouth, ME (US);
Assignee:
VXR, Inc., Portland, ME (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01N / ; B65D / ; B01L / ; G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-7 ; 422 58 ; 422 61 ; 422 68 ; 422102 ; 356246 ; 435805 ; 435810 ; 436518 ; 436531 ; 436532 ; 436800 ; 436808 ; 436809 ; 436810 ;
Abstract
This invention relates to devices and to methods, diagnostic reagents and kits embodying such devices for use in ligand/anti-ligand assays and the qualitative or semi-quantitative detection of a substance of interest thereby through use of light or photon detecting systems such as reflectometers, colorimeters, fluorimeters and the human eye. Such devices, methods and kits have applications in the biologic research and medical fileds for assaying drugs, hormones, peptides, proteins, enzymes, nucleic acids, antibodies, haptens, antibiotics, viri, infectious agents, tumor markers and the like, in the laboratory, the physicians' office, the veterinarian's office and the home.