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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. 11, 1994
Filed:
Mar. 29, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
N Robert Ward, Jr, Seattle, WA (US);
Philip J Lozier, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
BioControl Systems, Inc., Bothell, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; G01N / ; G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-6 ; 435-79 ; 435-792 ; 435803 ; 435962 ; 436541 ; 436824 ; 422 59 ; 422 70 ;
Abstract
There is disclosed a process and a device for detecting and measuring (1) the amount of enzyme present as a detecting system following a nucleic acid hybridization reaction or immunoreaction; (2) the level and activity of free enzyme in a biological sample; (3) the level of enzyme from contaminating microorganisms present in a sample; and (4) enzymes from pure culture isolates for microbial identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing.