Image capture for large analyte arrays

US10564098B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. · US

Inventors

• John Barich · Pleasant Hill, US
• Renee Lemaire-Adkins · Napa, US
• David Neaz · Pleasanton, US
• Ariel G. Notcovich · Haifa, IL
• Paul Patt · Danville, US
• Ryan Short · Fairfield, US
• Steven Swihart · Walnut Creek, US
• Evan Thrush · San Anselmo, US
• Trey Marlowe · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 17, 2013
• Grant date: Feb 18, 2020
• Expiry date: Mar 1, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B21/06
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Analyte arrays such as solutes in a slab-shaped gel following electrophoresis, and particularly arrays that are in excess of 3 cm square and up to 25 cm square and higher, are imaged at distances of 5 cm or less by either forming sub-images of the entire array and stitching together the sub-images by computer-based stitching technology, or by using an array of thin-film photoresponsive elements that is coextensive with the analyte array to form a single image of the array.