Radio frequency label for multiwell plates or slides

• US 20020030598A1
• Filed: 02/16/2001
• Published: 03/14/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Corning Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Corning Incorporated
• Inventors: Dombrowski, Scott A., Tibbetts, Alan L., Popoloski, Martin J., Szlosek, Paul M.
• Application Number:
  US09/785,880
• Publication Number:
  US 20020030598A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/572.1
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2035/00782 reprogrammmable code
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 35/00732 Identification of carriers, materials or components in automatic analysers
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 35/00871 Communications between instruments or with remote terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/04 characterised by the shape
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/2417 having a radio frequency identification chip
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/2445 Tag integrated into item to be protected, e.g. source tagging

Abstract

A multiwell plate or other substrate for use in performing biological and chemical analysis, the contents of which are identifiable by means of a radio frequency labeling system.

Claims

1. A substrate used for the immobilization of biomolecules comprising:

(a) a substantially flat slide having an upper and lower surface;

(b) a radio frequency labeling indicia either bonded to the upper or lower surface, or integral with said slide.

2. The substrate of claim 1 further comprising a biomolecular immobilizing film coating said upper surface of said slide.

3. The substrate of claim 2 further comprising a biomolecule attached to said upper surface of said substrate.

4. The substrate of claim 2 wherein said biomolecule is a DNA probe.

5. The substrate of claim 1 further comprising an array of biomolecules attached to the upper surface of said slide.

6. A multiwell plate comprising:

(a) a peripheral skirt;

(b) a top portion;

(c) a matrix of wells, said wells having bottoms, sidewalls and open tops; and

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(d) a radio frequency labeling indicia attached to said plate or integrally molded therein.

7. A multiwell filter plate comprising:

(a) a peripheral skirt;

(b) a top portion;

(c) a matrix of wells, said wells having filter bottoms, sidewalls and open tops; and

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(d) a radio frequency labeling indicia attached to said plate or integrally molded therein.

8. A laboratory product selected from the group consisting of:

PCR plate, block, cluster tube, rack, flask, roller bottle, tube, vial, and dish; and

whereby a radio frequency labeling indicia is either bonded to a surface of the laboratory product or embedded within a surface thereof.