Title:
AUTOMATED POLYMER-SYNTHESIS SYSTEM
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2011/102914
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to automated-polymer- synthesis systems that include discrete reagent-solution-addition, wait-time, and reagent- solution-draining sub-systems which together significantly increase throughput and decrease sub-system idle time. The automated-polymer-synthesis systems that represent embodiments of the present invention additionally include switches at points in which carriers can be received from multiple input paths or output to multiple different output paths. The automated-polymer-synthesis systems that represent embodiments of the present invention generally include an input spur and output spur in addition to a main loop, allowing carriers containing only completed polymers to be removed and new carriers input, so that carriers traverse the automated-polymer-synthesis systems independently from one another.
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Inventors:
PARKER HSING-YEH (US)
TABONE JOHN (US)
MULLIGAN JOHN (US)
TABONE JOHN (US)
MULLIGAN JOHN (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2011/000333
Publication Date:
February 16, 2012
Filing Date:
February 22, 2011
Export Citation:
Assignee:
OLIGOCO (US)
PARKER HSING-YEH (US)
TABONE JOHN (US)
MULLIGAN JOHN (US)
PARKER HSING-YEH (US)
TABONE JOHN (US)
MULLIGAN JOHN (US)
International Classes:
C12M1/00; B01J8/00; C12Q1/68
Domestic Patent References:
WO2005110593A2 | 2005-11-24 |
Foreign References:
US5252296A | 1993-10-12 | |||
US7160517B2 | 2007-01-09 | |||
US20060263534A1 | 2006-11-23 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
BERGSTROM, Robert, W. (P.O. Box 4277Seattle, WA, US)
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