Polyvalor, Limited Partnership

International Business Machines Corporation

Val-chum, Limited Partnership

Thomas Gervais

Etienne Boulais

Pierre-Alexandre Goyette

Emmanuel Delamarche

Yuksel Temiz

Anne-Marie Mes-Masson

Kayla Simeone

Marco Rocca

Robin Guay-Lord

Benjamin Peant

A system and method of fluid delivery for providing a surface fluid pattern. The system includes a fluid delivery head for fluid flow therethrough. The fluid delivery head includes a fluid delivery surface having surface openings defined therein and arranged across the fluid delivery surface as a two-dimensional array. The surface openings include at least one aspiration opening through which fluid can be provided to the fluid delivery surface and at least one injection opening through which fluid can be moved away from the fluid delivery surface.

System and method of fluid delivery

An embodiment for a microfluidic device is provided. The device comprises two areas, arranged side-by-side, and a trigger channel. They include a first area, which is delimited by a first liquid pinning barrier, and a second area, which is delimited by a second liquid pinning barrier. The latter extends parallel to the first liquid pinning barrier to delimit a corridor. The trigger channel extends through the corridor between the two areas. In addition, the trigger channel connects the first liquid pinning barrier with the second liquid pinning barrier, allowing a first liquid pinned at the first liquid pinning barrier and a second liquid pinned at the second liquid pinning barrier to be contacted, each, by a reverse flow of the second liquid in the trigger channel and thereby start mixing at a level of the corridor, in operation. The invention is further directed to related methods of operation.

Microfluidic devices with capillary dilutors

A system and method of fluid delivery for providing a surface fluid pattern. The system includes a fluid delivery head for fluid flow therethrough. The fluid delivery head includes a fluid delivery surface having surface openings defined therein and arranged across the fluid delivery surface as a two-dimensional display. Some of the surface openings are grouped as a surface opening unit. The surface opening unit includes at least one aspiration opening through which fluid can be provided to the fluid delivery surface and at least one injection opening through which fluid can be moved away from the fluid delivery surface. The surface opening unit includes at least three surface openings positioned as a two-dimensional display and outwardly of at least one other surface opening.

System and method for fluid delivery

Methods and systems for preparing a medium-embedded-sample-block. The method comprises obtaining a frame having a plurality of sample wells arranged as a two-dimensional array, the frame having an open face for accessing the sample in the sample wells; placing embedding medium in the sample wells such that the embedding medium immerses the samples in the plurality of sample wells; allowing the embedding medium to form a block of embedding medium including the samples embedded therein; and separating the frame from the block of embedding medium to obtain the medium-embedded-sample-block.

Medium-embedded samples

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Thomas Gervais