Patent ID: 9328381
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: B01L,C12Q,G01N

Claim Text:
1. A self-contained, biological assay apparatus, comprising: a housing; a dispensing platform including a controllably-movable reagent dispensing system, disposed in the housing; a reagent supply component disposed in the housing; a pneumatic manifold removeably disposed in the housing in a space shared by the dispensing platform, removeably coupled to a microfluidic system having a fluidic transport layer and a plurality of reservoirs which are fluidly connected to said fluidic transport layer, wherein the fluidic transport layer, the reservoirs, and a test sample to be introduced into the fluidic transport layer are disposed in the housing in the space separate from the dispensing platform; a pneumatic supply system removeably coupled to the pneumatic manifold in the housing in a space separate from the dispensing platform; and a control system coupled to at least one of the dispensing platform and the pneumatic supply system, disposed in the housing, wherein the apparatus is characterized as a self-contained, fully automated biological assay-performing apparatus, further wherein the test sample, once introduced, is transported from a starting location in the fluidic transport layer to the analysis reservoir separately from any other samples and separately from the pneumatic manifold and the dispensing system.