| US 7,595,883 B1 | ||
| Biological analysis arrangement and approach therefor | ||
| Abbas El Gamal, Palo Alto, Calif. (US); Helmy Eltoukhy, Woodside, Calif. (US); and Khaled Salama, Stanford, Calif. (US) | ||
| Assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, Calif. (US) | ||
| Filed on Sep. 16, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/663,935. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/411286, filed on Sep. 16, 2002. | ||
| Int. Cl. G01N 21/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 356—440 [356/246; 422/82.01; 435/6] | 45 Claims |
| 1. An integrated microcircuit assaying arrangement comprising:
a circuit-supporting substrate;
a light detection circuit on the substrate and arranged to detect an optical characteristic of a biological sample and generate
a signal as a function of the detected optical characteristic;
a plurality of microwells in said substrate, said microwells configured to confine a biological sample; and
a processing circuit communicatively coupled to the light detection circuit to receive the signal and including an instruction-responsive
processor on the substrate and adapted to process the signal and to provide an assay output corresponding to the detected
optical characteristics, and further including a data storage circuit on the substrate, coupled to the processor and configured
to store data, the processor being configured to retrieve data from the data storage circuit for processing the signal and
providing the output.
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