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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2009
Filed:
May. 04, 2004
H Ben Hsieh, Mountain View, CA (US);
Meng H. Lean, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bryan T. Preas, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Armin R. Volkel, Mountain View, CA (US);
H Ben Hsieh, Mountain View, CA (US);
Meng H. Lean, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bryan T. Preas, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Armin R. Volkel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A portable apparatus for extracting and concentrating bioagents within a fluid medium includes a container with sample solution inlet port and traveling wave grids patterned on surfaces of the container. The traveling wave grids cause bioagents to migrate to a specified surface within the container and then to an extraction port. The traveling wave grids include a substrate, across which extend a collection of closely spaced and parallel electrically conductive electrodes, and a collection of buses providing electrical communication with the collection of conductive electrodes. A voltage controller provides a multiphase electrical signal to the collection of buses and electrodes of the traveling wave grids.