Patent 7390457 was granted and assigned to Agilent Technologies on June, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A microfluidic component having a microfluidic channel is joined to an array component having a flexible array substrate. In an embodiment, the array component includes a prefabricated flexible array that couples with the microfluidic component in modular fashion. The modular architecture provides for different combinations of microfluidic components and array components that can be used to create customized processing and analysis tools.