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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2016
Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Vamsee K. Pamula, Cary, NC (US);
Ramakrishna Sista, Cary, NC (US);
Vijay Srinivasan, Cary, NC (US);
Michael G. Pollack, Durham, NC (US);
Allen Eckhardt, San Diego, CA (US);
ADVANCED LIQUID LOGIC, INC., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a method of circulating magnetically responsive beads within a droplet in a droplet actuator. The invention also provides methods for splitting droplets. The invention, in one embodiment, makes use of a droplet actuator with top and bottom substrates, a plurality of magnetic fields respectively present proximate the top and bottom substrates, wherein at least one of the magnet fields is selectively alterable, and a plurality of droplet operations electrodes positioned along at least one of the top and bottom surfaces. A droplet is positioned between the top and bottom surfaces and at least one of the magnetic fields is selectively altered.