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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:
Apr. 28, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 21, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ronald M Jones, Mountain View, CA (US);
Eric G Barr, Fremont, CA (US);
Gary E Hewett, San Leandro, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cholestech Corporation, Hayward, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
422 58 ; 422 63 ; 422 66 ; 422100 ; 436 43 ; 436 44 ; 436164 ; 436165 ; 436180 ; 436805 ; 436807 ; 436518 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to an immunoassay cassette useful for carrying out multistage immunoassays in an automated manner. In operation, the cassette assumes different operational positions in which solutions are transferred sequentially across an absorbent pathway containing assay reagents.