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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:
Oct. 12, 1993
Filed:
Jan. 17, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Vladimir Drbal, Belmont, CA (US);
Calvin Chow, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Rick Smethers, Milpitas, CA (US);
Debra A Ross, Redwood City, CA (US);
Gregory Kirk, Redwood City, CA (US);
Briggs, Jonathan, Los Altos, CA (US);
Lev Leytes, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Suresh N Mehta, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ; C12Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
422101 ; 422 56 ; 422 57 ; 422 58 ; 435-71 ; 435-75 ; 435970 ; 436169 ;
Abstract
This invention encompasses a slide reading assembly, and a slide with a porous filter membrane wherein the slide has a means for aligning the slide within a filter assembly to filter reagents on predetermined portions of the porous filter membrane and also to position the slide in a slide reading assembly so that detection will occur in those same predetermined locations.