Intellectual Property

Our intellectual property provides the technical springboard from which existing and new products originate. The company has seven patents issued and nine pending approval.

U.S. Patents Issued and Unchallenged:

• Multiplexed, absorbance-based capillary electrophoresis system and method
  – US Patent No. 7,534,335. Issued May 19, 2009
• Multiplexed CE Fluorescence System.
  – German Patent No. DE 2006 058 575 B4. Issued January 1, 2009
• Micro Fabricated Chip and Method of Use.
  – US Patent No. 7,497,937. Issued March 3, 2009
• Flow Cytometer for Rapid Microbial Detection.
  – US Patent No. 7,468,789. Issued December 23, 2008
• Lead Screw Bearing.
  – US Patent No. 7,434,486. Issued October 14, 2008
• Device and Method for Grinding Biological Samples.
  – US Patent No. 7,370,819. Issued May 13, 2008
• Vortexer.
  – US Patent No. 7,296,924. Issued November 20, 2007
• Method for Reducing Background Fluorescence.
  – US Patent No. 7,205,100. Issued April 17, 2007
• Robotic Friendly External Loading System for Electrophoresis Instrument and Method.
  – US Patent No. 7,118,659. Issued October 10, 2006
• Capillary Electrophoresis Gel Especially for Separation Made for Single Stranded Nucleic Acid Separations.
  – US Patent No. 7,083,711. Issued August 1, 2006
• Two-Dimensional Protein Separations Using Chromatofocusing and Multiplexed Capillary Gel Electrophoresis.
  – US Patent No. 6,969,452. Issued November 29, 2005
• Multiplexed, Absorbance-Based Capillary Electrophoresis System and Method.
  – US Patent No. 6,833,919. Issued December 21, 2004
• Multiplexed, Absorbance-Based Capillary Electrophoresis System and Method.
  – US Patent No. 6,833,062. Issued December 21, 2004
• Method of Analyzing Multiple Samples Simultaneously by Detecting Absorption.
  – US Patent No. 6,788,414. Issued September 7, 2004
• RBD Sample Delivery Methods, Key to Low-level Detection.
  – US Patent No. 6,473,171. Issued October 29, 2002
• Integrated Multiplexed Capillary Electrophoresis System Using Absorption Detection.
  – US Patent No. 6,387,234. Issued May 14, 2002
• Multiplexed fluorescence detector system for capillary electrophoresis.
  – US Patent No. 5,498,324. Issued March 12, 1996
• Multiplexed fluorescence detector system for capillary electrophoresis.
  – US Patent No. 5,324,401. Issued June 28, 1994