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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:
Nov. 10, 1992
Filed:
Aug. 08, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yuji Ito, Chigasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ; G01N / ; G01N / ; G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356 73 ; 356336 ; 356343 ; 436523 ; 436533 ; 436805 ; 436807 ;
Abstract
In a method and an apparatus wherein carriers sensitized by an antibody or an antigen are caused to react to a specimen sample and the condensation of the carriers caused by the antigen-antibody reaction is optically detected by the use of flow cytometry, thereby measuring the antigen or antibody in the specimen sample, a plurality of kinds of carriers differing in optical characteristic are sensitized by different kinds of antibodies or antigens, respectively, whereby a plurality of kinds of antigens or antibodies in the specimen sample are measured at a time.