ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,774, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Panazee (Oakland, Calif.).
"Kinetic immunoassay systems and methods" was invented by Yann Astier (Oakland, Calif.) and Juraj Topolancik (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic chip with an array of pillars for directing flow of beads is used to measure reaction kinetics. A stream may be continuously drawn from the reaction volume into the microfluidic chip. The bead is attached to a primary antibody. The reaction volume has an antigen and a second antibody with a label. The primary antibody binds to the antigen, and the secondary antibody binds to the antigen, creati...