Configurable dynamic three dimensional array
CA 2451222 A1 · Owner: Lopes, Ward · Inventors: Grier, David; Lopes, Ward; Gruber, Lewis
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The present invention relates generally to a configurable array of probes for assaying targets within a fluid. The probes are contained within optical traps which allows for alterations in the selection and re-configuration of the quantity or quality of probes in the array. Moreover the array is dynamic in , that once configured the optical traps may allow for independent repositioning of a given optical trap and contained probe.
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- Filed April 12, 2002. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 12, 2022.
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