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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2011
David Noblett, Naperville, IL (US);
Robert E. Krug, Naperville, IL (US);
Steven Liebold, Palatine, IL (US);
Mark Francis Krol, Painted Post, NY (US);
David Andrew Pastel, Horseheads, NY (US);
Ravi Marala, Painted Post, NY (US);
Dawn Neumann, Naperville, IL (US);
David Noblett, Naperville, IL (US);
Robert E. Krug, Naperville, IL (US);
Steven Liebold, Palatine, IL (US);
Mark Francis Krol, Painted Post, NY (US);
David Andrew Pastel, Horseheads, NY (US);
Ravi Marala, Painted Post, NY (US);
Ken Neumann, Naperville, IL (US);
PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc, Waltham, MA (US);
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention is a microplate mounting system for mounting a microplate relative to an optical reader to control an angle of incidence of an interrogation beam at the microplate and includes a reference plane with at least one set of mount features that engage one or both of the bottom of the microplate and the skirt of the and a first positioning mechanism that provides a reversible and predetermined separation in the z direction between a plane formed by the bottom of the microplate and the reader, to control the angle of incidence of the interrogation beam at the microplate by reversibly controlling the relative positioning of the microplate in the z direction through the engagement between the bottom and/or skirt of the microplate and the at least one set of mount features.