Search/Browse Tech
Vesicle-based method for collecting, manipulating, and chemically processing trace macromolecular species
United States Patent
7,776,357 | |
August 17, 2010 | |
View the Complete Patent at the US Patent & Trademark Office | |
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for inserting one or several chemical or biological species into phospholipid containers that are controlled within a microfluidic network, wherein individual containers are tracked and manipulated by electric fields and wherein the contained species may be chemically processed. | |
Davalos; Rafael V. (Oakland, CA)Ellis; Christopher R. B. (Oakland, CA) | |
Sandia Corporation (Livermore, CA) | |
12/ 012,839 | |
February 5, 2008 | |
424/450 | |
A61K 9/127 (20060101) | |
STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT INTEREST This invention was made with Government support under government contract no. DE-AC04-94AL85000 awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy to Sandia Corporation. The Government has certain rights in the invention, including a paid-up license and the right, in limited circumstances, to require the owner of any patent issuing in this invention to license others on reasonable terms. |