Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and system for integrated mutliplexed photometry module
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Application No.: US16216397Application Date: 2018-12-11
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Publication No.: US10436704B2Publication Date: 2019-10-08
- Inventor: Ramin Haghgooie , Kenneth T. Kotz , Robert Granier , Anne Celia Petrofsky
- Applicant: THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US MA Boston
- Assignee: The General Hospital Corporation
- Current Assignee: The General Hospital Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Boston
- Agency: Quearles & Brady LLP
- Agent Yakov S. Sidorin
- Main IPC: G01N21/03
- IPC: G01N21/03 ; B01L3/00 ; G01N21/25 ; G01N21/11

Abstract:
Reusable network of spatially-multiplexed microfluidic channels each including an inlet, an outlet, and a cuvette in-between. Individual channels may operationally share a main or common output channel defining the network output and optionally leading to a disposable storage volume. Alternatively, multiple channels are structured to individually lead to the storage volume. An individual cuvette is dimensioned to substantially prevent the formation of air-bubbles during the fluid sample flow through the cuvette and, therefore, to be fully filled and fully emptied. The overall channel network is configured to spatially lock the fluidic sample by pressing such sample with a second fluid against a closed to substantially immobilize it to prevent drifting due to the change in ambient conditions during the measurement. Thereafter, the fluidic sample is flushed through the now-opened valve with continually-applied pressure of the second fluid. System and method for photometric measurements of multiple fluid samples employing such network of channels.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190120748A1 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATED MUTLIPLEXED PHOTOMETRY MODULE Public/Granted day:2019-04-25
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