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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
May. 17, 2010
Rijk Edwin Oosterbroek, Cham, CH;
Mario Curcio, Sins, CH;
Stephan Korner, Cham, CH;
Brigitte Niederberger, Thalwil, CH;
Rijk Edwin Oosterbroek, Cham, CH;
Mario Curcio, Sins, CH;
Stephan Korner, Cham, CH;
Brigitte Niederberger, Thalwil, CH;
Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);
Abstract
Centrifugal force based microfluidic systems for the automated analysis of fluids involving the use of magnetically responsive particles and methods thereof are disclosed. A magnet is fixed to a supporting device of the system in correspondence to a retention zone of the system so as to rotate therewith and to generate a magnetic field which magnetically manipulates the magnetically responsive particles contained in a reaction chamber of the system.