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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:
May. 25, 1993
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert W Flesher, Baltimore, MD (US);
Kevin J Barnes, Uniontown, MD (US);
Assignee:
Apogee Designs, Ltd., Baltimore, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
422102 ; 422101 ; 422104 ; 422 58 ; 422 66 ; 436 44 ; 436165 ; 436170 ; 436180 ; 436809 ; 435293 ; 435294 ; 435301 ; 435809 ; 141130 ; 7386453 ; 7386459 ; 7386472 ;
Abstract
For collecting a batch of liquid samples, such as in the laboratory testing of body fluids, there is provided a collecting sheet having an array of resiliently deflectable fingers formed in the sheet. The fingers can be deflected out of the plane of the sheet to dip into respective liquid containers such as wells in a microtiter plate so as to absorb liquid samples therefrom. When released, the fingers snap back into the plane of the sheet retaining the liquid samples therein.