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United States Patent6632655   
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Inventor(s)Mehta; Tammy Burd (San Jose, CA), Kopf-Sill; Anne R. (Portola Valley, CA), Parce; J. Wallace (Palo Alto, CA), Chow; Andrea W. (Los Altos, CA), Bousse; Luc J. (Los Altos, CA), Knapp; Michael R. (Redwood City, CA), Nikiforov; Theo T. (San Jose, CA), Gallagher; Steve (Palo Alto, CA)
AbstractArrays of flowable or fixed particle sets are used in microfluidic systems for performing assays and modifying hydrodynamic flow. Also provided are assays utilizing flowable or fixed particle sets within a microfluidic system, as well as kits, apparatus and integrated systems comprising arrays and array members.
   














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Manipulation of microparticles in microfluidic systems
Inventor     Mehta; Tammy Burd (San Jose, CA) , Kopf-Sill; Anne R. (Portola Valley, CA) , Parce; J. Wallace (Palo Alto, CA) , Chow; Andrea W. (Los Altos, CA) , Bousse; Luc J. (Los Altos, CA) , Knapp; Michael R. (Redwood City, CA) , Nikiforov; Theo T. (San Jose, CA) , Gallagher; Steve (Palo Alto, CA)
Owner/Assignee     Caliper Technologies Corp. (Mountain View, CA)
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Publication Date     October 14, 2003
Application Number     09/510,626
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Filing Date     February 22, 2000
US Classification     435/288.5 435/287.2 435/287.3 435/288.4 436/518 436/531 436/532
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Examiner     Ponnaluri; Padmashri
Assistant Examiner     Tran; My Chau T
Attorney/Law Firm     Murphy; Matthew B. Quine Intellectual Property Law Group, P.C. McKenna; Donald R.
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Parent Case     STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT The present invention was made with government funding from the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), through the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) under Grant No. 70NANB8H4000, and the United States government may have certain rights in the invention. CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS The present application claims benefit of and priority to U.S. Ser. No. 60/121,223, filed Feb. 23, 1999 by Mehta et al.; U.S. Ser. No. 60/127,825, filed Apr. 5, 1999 by Mehta et al.; U.S. Ser. No. 60/128,643, filed Apr. 9, 1999 by Mehta et al.; co-filed PCT application PCT/US00/04522, filed Feb. 22, 2000,; co-filed U.S. application U.S. Ser. No. 09/510,205, filed Feb. 22, 2000; and co-filed PCT application PCT/US00/04486, filed Feb. 22, 2000.
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USPTO Field of Search     435/287.2 435/7.21 435/291 435/286.5 435/287.3 435/288.4 435/288.5 422/56 422/57 422/58 436/52 436/518 436/531 436/532
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