Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm David C. Abeles
  • Apparatus and method for trapping bead based reagents within microfluidic analysis systems
    Patent number: 6432290
    Abstract: The present invention provides an on-chip packed reactor bed design that allows for an effective exchange of packing materials such as beads at a miniaturized level. The present invention extends the function of microfluidic analysis systems to new applications including on-chip solid phase extraction (SPE) and on-chip capillary electrochromatography (CEC). The design can be further extended to include integrated packed bed immuno- or enzyme reactors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: The Governors of the University of Alberta
    Inventors: D. Jed Harrison, Richard Oleschuk, Loranelle Shultz-Lockyear, Cameron Skinner, Paul Li