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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:
Jan. 27, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
J. Wallace Parce, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Andrea W. Chow, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Caliper Technologies Corp., Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F15C 1/18 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F15C 1/18 ;
Abstract
Methods devices and systems that employ non-mechanical valve modules for controllably directing fluid and other material movement through integrated microscale channel networks. These non-mechanical valve modules apply forces that counter the driving forces existing through a given channel segment, via fluidly connected channel segments, so as to selectively arrest flow of material within the given channel segment.