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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 12, 1999
Andrea W. Chow, Los Altos, CA (US);
Robert S. Dubrow, San Carlos, CA (US);
J. Wallace Parce, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Steven A. Sundberg, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeffrey A. Wolk, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Ring-Ling Chien, San Jose, CA (US);
Steven James Gallagher, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael R. Knapp, Redwood City, CA (US);
Anne R. Kopf-Sill, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Tammy Burd Mehta, San Jose, CA (US);
Caliper Technologies Corp., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus and systems are provided for introducing large numbers of different materials into a microfluidic analytical device rapidly, efficiently and reproducibly. In particular, improved integrated pipettor chip configurations, e.g. sippers or electropipettors, are described which are capable of sampling extremely small amounts of material for which analysis is desired, transporting material into a microfluidic analytical channel network, and performing the desired analysis on the material.