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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2017
Quantum-si Incorporated, Guilford, CT (US);
Jonathan M. Rothberg, Guilford, CT (US);
Ali Kabiri, Madison, CT (US);
Jason W. Sickler, Madison, CT (US);
Brett J. Gyarfas, Guilford, CT (US);
Jeremy Lackey, Guilford, CT (US);
Gerard Schmid, Guilford, CT (US);
Benjamin Cipriany, Branford, CT (US);
Jack Jewell, Boulder, CO (US);
Lawrence C. West, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Ferrigno, Farmington, CT (US);
Paul E. Glenn, Wellesley, MA (US);
Adam Ezra Cohen, Cambridge, MA (US);
Anthony Bellofiore, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Quantum-Si Incorporated, Guilford, CT (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and methods for analyzing single molecule and performing nucleic acid sequencing. An apparatus can include an assay chip that includes multiple pixels with sample wells configured to receive a sample, which, when excited, emits emission energy; at least one element for directing the emission energy in a particular direction; and a light path along which the emission energy travels from the sample well toward a sensor. The apparatus also includes an instrument that interfaces with the assay chip. The instrument includes an excitation light source for exciting the sample in each sample well; a plurality of sensors corresponding the sample wells. Each sensor may detect emission energy from a sample in a respective sample well. The instrument includes at least one optical element that directs the emission energy from each sample well towards a respective sensor of the plurality of sensors.