Methods and apparatus for conducting multiple measurements on a sample

US7858321B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MESO SCALE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC. · US

Inventors

• Eli N. Glezer · Del Mar, US
• Kent Johnson · Bethesda, US
• Michael Tsionsky · Gaithersburg, US
• John Kenten · Gaithersburg, US
• Jeff D. Debad · Gaithersburg, US
• Robert M. Umek · Silver Spring, US
• Paula Denney Eason · Germantown, US
• Hans Biebuyck · Thalwil, CH
• Jacob N. Wohlstadter · Potomac, US
• James Wilbur · Rockville, US
• George Sigal · Rockville, US
• Niranjan Y. Sardesai · North Wales, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 10, 2002
• Grant date: Dec 28, 2010
• Expiry date: Sep 21, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S436/807
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Multiplexed test measurements are conducted using an assay module having a plurality of assay domains. In preferred embodiments, these measurements are conducted in assay modules having integrated electrodes with a reader apparatus adapted to receive assay modules, induce luminescence, preferably electrode induced luminescence, in the wells or assay regions of the assay modules and measure the induced luminescence.