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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2010
Applicants:
German Arciniegas, Berkeley, CA (US);
Jeff Ceremony, Fairfield, CA (US);
Daniel Y. Chu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charles W. Ragsdale, Concord, CA (US);
Inventors:
German Arciniegas, Berkeley, CA (US);
Jeff Ceremony, Fairfield, CA (US);
Daniel Y. Chu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charles W. Ragsdale, Concord, CA (US);
Assignee:
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Hercules, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01); B01L 7/00 (2006.01); B01L 9/06 (2006.01); B01L 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 7/52 (2013.01); B01L 3/50851 (2013.01); B01L 7/54 (2013.01); B01L 9/06 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0829 (2013.01); B01L 2300/1805 (2013.01); B01L 2300/1822 (2013.01); B01L 2300/1838 (2013.01); B01L 2300/1883 (2013.01);
Abstract
Individual temperature control in multiple reactions performed simultaneously in a spatial array such as a multi-well plate is achieved by thermoelectric modules with individual control, with each module supplying heat to or drawing heat from a single region within the array, the region containing either a single reaction vessel or a group of reaction vessels.