Patent ID: 7731909

Claim:
A reaction surface array diagnostic apparatus comprising: a substrate with a plurality of reaction surfaces predeposited in microtiter well spaced bound arrays on the substrate; a plate having a plurality of wells extending therethrough in a standard microtiter well spacing; a gasket fluidically sealing the plate to the substrate, the gasket having microtiter well spaced wells combining with the wells in the plate to form reaction chambers about the reaction surfaces on the substrate; and a pair of C-shaped clamps engaging opposed edges of the plate and the substrate, the clamps compressing the gasket between the plate and the substrate, wherein each clamp of the pair of clamps comprises two spaced legs extending in the same direction from opposite ends of a central wall, the apparatus further comprising an array of a plurality of side-by-side arranged stacks, each stack individually joined together by a pair of C-shaped clamps, the wells in each stack maintaining said microtiter plate well spacing across the array; and a tray having an opening for receiving and supporting the array, the tray having a standard microtiter footprint.