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Patent US8034610 - Parallel processing fluidic method and apparatus for automated rapid ... - Google Patents
A sample processing system that may be configured to achieve parallel or coincidental sample processing such as histochemical processing may involve a plurality of samples arranged for coincidental movement perhaps by use of angular microscopic slide movements to cause processing activity that may include...http://www.google.com/patents/US8034610?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8034610 - Parallel processing fluidic method and apparatus for automated rapid immunohistochemistry
Publication number US8034610 B2
Application number US 11/912,273
PCT number PCT/US2006/015269
Also published as CA2623199A1, CA2623235A1, CA2623241A1, CA2623251A1, CN101203596A, CN101203597A, CN101203598A, CN101203762A, EP1877787A2, EP1877788A2, EP1880223A2, EP1880239A2, US7838283, US8058010, US8178350, US20080194034, US20080213804, US20080286753, US20090004691, WO2006116035A2, WO2006116035A3, WO2006116037A2, WO2006116037A3, WO2006116039A2, WO2006116039A3, WO2006116199A2, WO2006116199A3
Publication number 11912273, 912273, PCT/2006/15269, PCT/US/2006/015269, PCT/US/2006/15269, PCT/US/6/015269, PCT/US/6/15269, PCT/US2006/015269, PCT/US2006/15269, PCT/US2006015269, PCT/US200615269, PCT/US6/015269, PCT/US6/15269, PCT/US6015269, PCT/US615269, US 8034610 B2, US 8034610B2, US-B2-8034610, US8034610 B2, US8034610B2
Inventors Page A. Erickson, Michael R. Everman, Michael S. Bell, Kevin S. Edberg, Matthew M. Botke
Original Assignee Celerus Diagnostics, Inc.
Patent Citations (162), Non-Patent Citations (24), Referenced by (2), Classifications (11), Legal Events (3)
Parallel processing fluidic method and apparatus for automated rapid immunohistochemistry
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U.S. Classification 435/288.3
Cooperative Classification Y10T436/113332, G01N35/00009, G01N1/312, G01N2035/00039, Y10T436/11, G01N35/00029, Y10T436/112499
European Classification G01N35/00B, G01N35/00C
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