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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:
Jul. 01, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2005
Applicants:
Xiaochuan Zhou, Houston, TX (US);
Xiaollan Gao, Houston, TX (US);
Erdogan Gulari, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Inventors:
Xiaochuan Zhou, Houston, TX (US);
Xiaollan Gao, Houston, TX (US);
Erdogan Gulari, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01); C12M 1/34 (2006.01); B01L 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention describes microfluidic devices that provide novel fluidic structures to facilitate the separation of fluids into isolated, pico-liter sized compartments for performing multiplexing chemical and biological reactions. Applications of the novel devices including biomolecule synthesis, polynucleotide amplification, and binding assays are also disclosed.