| ILLUMINA CORPORATION Patent applications |
| Patent application number | Title | Published |
|---|
| 20110269641 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING LIQUIDS IN MULTIPLEX ASSAYS - Methods and systems for venting a well that receives a liquid. The method includes providing a microplate including a well that has a cavity with an open inlet and a closed end. The cavity extends between the open inlet and the closed end. The cavity is defined by a wall surface having a cross-sectional contour that includes at least one continuous section and at least one discontinuity section. The method also includes depositing a liquid into the open inlet of the well. The liquid enters the cavity and flows toward the closed end to at least partially fill the well. The liquid flows along the continuous section of the wall surface and remains separated from the discontinuity section of the wall surface, thereby maintaining a gas exhaust path along a spacing between the liquid and the discontinuity section as the liquid flows toward the closed end. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20100246007 | COMPOSITION INCLUDING AN ITEM AND AN ENCODED OPTICAL SUBSTRATE AND A METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AN ITEM - A method and apparatus for drug product tracking (or other pharmaceutical, health care or cosmetics products, and/or the packages or containers they are supplied with) using diffraction grating-based encoded optical identification elements | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100187115 | ELECTROOSMOTIC PUMP WITH IMPROVED GAS MANAGEMENT - An electroosmotic (EO) pump is provided that includes a housing having a pump cavity, a porous core medium and electrodes. The porous core medium is positioned within the pump cavity to form an exterior reservoir that extends at least partially about an exterior surface of the porous core medium. The porous core medium has an open inner chamber provided therein. The inner chamber represents an interior reservoir. The electrodes are positioned in the inner chamber and are positioned proximate the exterior surface. The electrodes induce flow of a fluid through the porous core medium between the interior and exterior reservoirs, wherein a gas is generated when the electrodes induce flow of the fluid. The housing has a fluid inlet to convey the fluid to one of the interior reservoir and the exterior reservoir. The housing has a fluid outlet to discharge the fluid from another of the interior reservoir and the exterior reservoir. The housing has a gas removal device to remove the gas from the pump cavity. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100025482 | COMPOSITION INCLUDING AN ITEM AND AN ENCODED OPTICAL IDENTIFICATION ELEMENT THAT IS PHYSICALLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE ITEM - A composition including an item and an optical identification element that is physically associated with the item. The optical identification element includes a binder material and one or more materials embedded in the binder material. The one or more materials provides a composite X-ray diffraction pattern when illuminated by an X-ray beam. The composite X-ray diffraction pattern being indicative of a code. The code relating to information about the item. | 02-04-2010 |
