Back to results
US 8,211,386 B2Granted
Tapered cuvette and method of collecting magnetic particles
AssigneeBiokit, S.A.
InventorsMark Talmer, Kathleen Limerick, Gary Schroeder
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A vessel for use in clinical analysis including an open top, a closed bottom, and at least four tapered sides. A method for collecting magnetic particles in a fluid comprising the steps of providing a magnet and a vessel containing magnetic particles in a fluid, attracting the magnetic particles to the magnet, and moving the magnetic particles with the magnet out of the fluid.
Claims6
A device for washing magnetic particles in a vessel, comprising:
- a holder comprising,
- a) a holder lumen,
- b) a vertical surface comprising a magnet, and
- c) a lever arm,
- wherein said lever arm is mounted to a pivot point proximal to a lower end of said lever arm and is reciprocally moveable from a vertical position to a lever arm tilted position relative to the vertical surface of the holder when a vessel is received in the holder lumen between the vertical surface and said lever arm, and said lever arm is biased toward said vertical position to retain a vessel in a tilted position relative to the vertical surface of the holder.
2 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.