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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2012
Applicants:
C. Frederick Battrell, Redmond, WA (US);
Troy D. Daiber, Auburn, WA (US);
William Samuel Hunter, Jan Juc, AU;
Inventors:
C. Frederick Battrell, Redmond, WA (US);
Troy D. Daiber, Auburn, WA (US);
William Samuel Hunter, Jan Juc, AU;
Assignee:
Micronics, Inc., Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12M 1/34 (2006.01); C12M 3/06 (2006.01); B01L 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12M 23/16 (2013.01); B01L 7/52 (2013.01);
Abstract
An instrument for fluorometric assays in liquid samples is disclosed. The instrument may include multiple optical channels for monitoring a first fluorophore associated with a target analyte and a second fluorophore associated with a control. The disclosed instrument finds utility in any number of applications, including microfluidic molecular biological assays based on PCR amplification of target nucleic acids and fluorometric assays in general.