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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. 22, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Allan Asp, Uppsala, SE;
Bengt-Goran Andersson, Sollentuna, SE;
Assignee:
Amersham Biosciences AB, Uppsala, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/726 ; G01N 2/164 ; G01N 2/176 ; G06K 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/726 ; G01N 2/164 ; G01N 2/176 ; G06K 9/00 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for detecting fluorophore labelled substances in an electrophoretic separation medium comprises illuminating means ( ) for illuminating the fluorophore labelled substances ( ), detecting means ( ) for detecting fluorescence emitted by said fluorophore labelled substances upon illumination, and illumination varying means ( ) for varying the illumination of the fluorophore labelled substances ( ) to vary the intensity of the fluorescence.