Portable apparatus for separating sample and detecting target analytes

US7452507B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Sandia Corporation · US

Inventors

• Ronald F. Renzi · Tracy, US
• Karl Wally · Lafayette, US
• Robert W. Crocker · Fremont, US
• James F. Stamps · Livermore, US
• Stewart Griffiths · Danville, US
• Julia Fruetel · Livermore, US
• Brent A. Horn · Roy, US
• Isaac Shokair · Livermore, US
• Daniel Yee · Dublin, US
• Victoria A. VanderNoot · Pleasanton, US
• Boyd J. Wiedenman · Fremont, US
• Jason A. A. West · Pleasanton, US
• Scott M. Ferko · Livermore, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 4, 2003
• Grant date: Nov 18, 2008
• Expiry date: Jun 22, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2021/6482
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Portable devices and methods for determining the presence of a target analyte using a portable device are provided. The portable device is preferably hand-held. A sample is injected to the portable device. A microfluidic separation is performed within the portable device and at least one separated component detected by a detection module within the portable device, in embodiments of the invention. A target analyte is identified, based on the separated component, and the presence of the target analyte is indicated on an output interface of the portable device, in accordance with embodiments of the invention.