Patent ID: 7749447

Claim:
An apparatus a) for accurately inductively transporting or dispensing one or a plurality of liquids, in microliter to picoliter volume ranges, and b) for accurately and precisely in both volumetric and spatial terms delivering drugs, anethestics, taggants and other liquids, suspended solids or other fluids to products of all types, drugs or prescriptions, food, plants, animal and human subjects, scientific and other instruments or related targets c) which is useful for manufacturing one or more charged functionalized solid entities or mixtures thereof d) which is useful for the purification and treatment of fluids which is comprised of: at least one syringe having one or more nested gaussian surfaces being made of non-conducting materials; a power supply coupled to said one or more gaussian surfaces to directly pump or otherwise energize and provide liquid flow from at least one syringe having said one or more nested gaussian surfaces; said coupling being through electrical leads individually connected to a power supply and the exterior of 1) said one or more nested gaussian surfaces or 2) a non-conducting holder of said at least one syringe, or 3) to otherwise electrically disconnected targets upon which said liquid is to be dispensed, and wherein a second of 1) said one or more nested gaussian surfaces or 2) a non-conducting holder of said at least one syringe, or 3) to otherwise electrically disconnected targets 3 is connected; wherein the at least one syringe is optionally connected to a manifold supplying said one or a plurality of liquids to the at least one syringe; wherein a circuit connecting said power supply to said one or more gaussian surfaces further optionally includes an on/off switch, a device for measuring current and voltage, a selector switch and an optional means for connecting said circuit to a microprocessor for electronically controlling said transporting, dispensing or treating; wherein said targets, syringes or both are optionally arranged on a robotic platform which provides for relative motion between said targets and said at least one syringe; and wherein said apparatus further optionally includes a vision analysis system including a video camera with electronic lens and vision analysis software for real time or post acquisition detection and quantification of said transporting or dispensing in conjunction with aforementioned current measurements.