Nanoliter array loading

US8545772B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Life Technologies Corporation · US

Inventors

• Tanya S. Kanigan · Cambridge, US
• Steve Smith · Arlington, US
• John Linton · Lincoln, US
• Robert Hess · Cambridge, US
• Karl Yoder · Stoneham, US
• Colin Brennan · Marblehead, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 23, 2011
• Grant date: Oct 1, 2013
• Expiry date: Dec 23, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T436/2525
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

An interface is provided for storing microfluidic samples in a nanoliter sample chip. A fluid access structure provides a fluid access region to a selected subset of sample wells from an array of sample wells. A fluid introduction mechanism introduces a sample fluid to the fluid access region so that the sample wells in the selected subset are populated with the sample fluid without the unselected sample wells being populated with the sample fluid.