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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:
Jul. 03, 1990
Filed:
Sep. 10, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Quentin J Tonelli, Portland, ME (US);
Assignee:
Idexx, Corp., Portland, ME (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-5 ; 435-2 ; 435-7 ; 435 30 ; 435 34 ; 435805 ; 436541 ; 436825 ; 422 61 ;
Abstract
A method of assaying a sample of whole blood for one member of a specific binding pair, the method involving treating the sample with salt to alter the red blood cells in the sample to decrease their ability to pass through filter media, exposing the resulting sample to a filter which retains the red blood cells but allows the passage therethrough of filtrate of the sample containing the member of the specific binding pair, and measuring the member of the filtrate.