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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 1994
Filed:
Aug. 27, 1991
Rick T Smethers, Milpitas, CA (US);
Lev J Leytes, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Brian D Warner, Martinez, CA (US);
Robert R Shadel, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael S Urdea, Alamo, CA (US);
Chiron Corporation, Emeryville, CA (US);
Abstract
A self-contained assembly for assaying an analyte in a liquid sample. The pair of disc-like rotatable plates forming the assembly are relatively rotatable to align reagent reservoirs in one plate with a reaction well in the other plate, for sequential addition of multiple reagents, either in liquid or solid form, to the reaction well. In one embodiment, the reaction well includes solid-phase particles which can be transferred from the reaction well to spaced wells in the assembly by a combination of relative movement of the plate, and rotation of the entire assembly.