Patent ID: 8232109
Filing Date: 2012-07-31
Classification: C12Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An active, thin-film-transistor-based matrix method for performing a DNA fluid-material assay comprising providing for use in the performance of such an assay a single, common substrate having a single, commonly-pixel-shared face on which is formed a plural, electronically-active-pixel, thin-film-transistor-based matrix assay of plural pixels, wherein each pixel on the commonly shared face possesses within it subjecting the matrix to an environment containing assay fluid in order to effect assay-site assay reactions, in conjunction with said subjecting, remotely, digitally, independently and individually addressing, and thereby activating and energizing, respectively, selected pixels' included switching transistors and light-field-creating structures, by said energizing initiating the creation of respectively associated, pixel-specific light fields, bathing the respective associated functionalized assay sites with th light fields created by the associated light-field-creating structures, and by said bathing, requesting from the bathed assay sites pixel-specific assay-result output information.