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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2017
Berkeley Lights, Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);
Igor Y. Khandros, Orinda, CA (US);
Daniele Malleo, El Cerrito, CA (US);
J. Tanner Nevill, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Steven W. Short, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Ming C. Wu, Moraga, CA (US);
Berkeley Lights, Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);
Abstract
A structure for providing a boundary for a chamber in a microfluidic apparatus can comprise dielectrophoresis (DEP) configurations each having an outer surface and electrowetting (EW) configurations each having an electrowetting surface. The DEP configurations can facilitate generating net DEP forces with respect to the outer surfaces of the DEP configurations to move micro-objects on the outer surfaces, and the EW configurations can facilitate changing wetting properties of the electrowetting surfaces to move droplets of liquid medium on the electrowetting surfaces.