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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:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2005
Applicants:
Karla Robotti, Mountain View, CA (US);
Daniel B. Roitman, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Kevin Killeen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Karla Robotti, Mountain View, CA (US);
Daniel B. Roitman, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Kevin Killeen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sierra Sensors GmbH, Hamburg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/553 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A microfluidic system including a chip sensor and an SPR optical detector. The chip sensor may be made a non-transparent material, such as polyimide or silicon, allowing non-visible radiation produced by the SPR optical detector to pass through and interact with a surface plasmon generating layer on the chip sensor.