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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1994
George Pontis, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael Lacy, Ben Lomand, CA (US);
Vladimir Drbal, Belmont, CA (US);
Calvin Chow, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Thomas Smith, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rick Smethers, Milpitas, CA (US);
Debra A Ross, Redwood City, CA (US);
Gregory Kirk, Redwood City, CA (US);
Jonathan Briggs, Los Altos, CA (US);
Lev Leytes, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Suresh N Mehta, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Molecular Devices Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
This invention encompasses a work station for conducting assays which comprises filtering assembly, a slide reading assembly, and a slide with a porous filter membrane wherein the slide has a means for aligning the slide within the filter assembly to filter reagents on predetermined portions of the porous filter membrane and also to position the slide in the slide reading assembly so that detection will occur in those same predetermined locations.