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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2006
Daniel Y. Chu, Hercules, CA (US);
Paul J. Patt, Blackhawk, CA (US);
Jeffry M. Ceremony, Fairfield, CA (US);
Daniel Y. Chu, Hercules, CA (US);
Paul J. Patt, Blackhawk, CA (US);
Jeffry M. Ceremony, Fairfield, CA (US);
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Hercules, CA (US);
Abstract
A platform that supports a sample plate such as a microtiter plate, a multi-well plate of any size, or a glass slide with sample spots distributed over its surface, and presents the plate for assay detection by a movable scanning head that has a field depth on the millimeter scale is leveled or otherwise adjusted in a planar orientation by an apparatus that includes a rocker plate, position sensors, and motorized risers arranged on the apparatus to provide the rocker plate with tilting capability along either or both or two orthogonal axes.