US 12,478,971 B2
Optical plate controller and reader
Gabriel Benito Borja, Boston, MA (US); Steven Nagle, Cambridge, MA (US); Christopher Werley, Cambridge, MA (US); Yang Lu, Cambridge, MA (US); Adam Barnett, Cambridge, MA (US); Owen McManus, Belmont, MA (US); and Graham T. Dempsey, Cambridge, MA (US)
Assigned to QUIVER HOLDINGS INC., Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed by QUIVER HOLDINGS INC., Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed on Dec. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/563,415.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/132,919, filed on Dec. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0203372 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. B01L 9/00 (2006.01); B01L 3/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/25 (2006.01); G01N 33/50 (2006.01); G01N 35/00 (2006.01); G01N 35/02 (2006.01)
CPC B01L 9/523 (2013.01) [B01L 3/5085 (2013.01); G01N 21/253 (2013.01); G01N 33/5044 (2013.01); G01N 35/0099 (2013.01); G01N 35/028 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0829 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A plate reader comprising:
a sample stage to support a multi-well plate;
one or more optical channel modules each comprising a plurality of optical channels, each optical channel comprising an objective lens capable of transmitting light at a plurality of different wavelengths and capable of detecting light at a plurality of different wavelengths using a different light detector for each different wavelength; and
a translational stage that displaces the multi-well plate with respect to the plurality of optical channels to align each of a plurality of wells of the multi-well plate with one of the optical channels, wherein each optical channel transmits light to and detects light from an aligned well.