Patents Represented by Attorney Applied Biosystems, LLC
  • Patent number: 8153417
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for handling biological samples. Segments of ionic liquid can provide voltage across segments of immiscible liquid to concentrate or separate charged species in the biological samples. Reactants in biological samples can be contacted and reacted in segments of immiscible liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Applied Biosystems, LLC.
    Inventors: Zbigniew T. Bryning, Timothy Z. Liu
  • Patent number: 7955863
    Abstract: Microfluidic devices for manipulating relatively dense materials, such as colloidal rod particles, are provided. Microfluidic devices for separating a denser first material from a less-dense second material are provided. Methods of manipulating a relatively dense first material, for example, colloidal rod particles, and separating the first material from a less-dense second material, are provided. Methods of marking samples or sample components with relatively dense materials, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Applied Biosystems, LLC
    Inventor: David Cox