Patents by Inventor Robert Grainier

Robert Grainier has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20150285731
    Abstract: Microfluidic cuvettes and a network of multiplexed channels including such cuvettes. The channels operationally share a main output channel defining an output of the network. A microfluidic channel includes an inlet, a cuvette, and an outlet that is coupled into the main output channel. The network is configured to provide a difference in resistances, to the fluid, by the main output channel and by an individual outlet is sufficient to prevent cross-contamination of different cuvettes, thereby operably isolating individual channels from one another. An individual cuvette is adapted to substantially prevent the formation of air-bubbles as part of the fluid flow through the cuvette and, therefore, to be fully filled and fully emptied. A system and method for photometric measurements of multiple fluid samples employing such network of channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Ramin Haghgooie, Kenneth T. Kotz, Robert Grainier, Anne Celia Petrofsky