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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2017
Applicant:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 3/00 (2006.01); G01N 1/40 (2006.01); G01N 15/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 1/4077 (2013.01); B01L 3/502715 (2013.01); B01L 3/502753 (2013.01); B01L 3/502761 (2013.01); G01N 15/1056 (2013.01); B01L 3/502776 (2013.01); B01L 2200/0631 (2013.01); B01L 2200/0652 (2013.01); B01L 2300/088 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0864 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0883 (2013.01); G01N 2001/4088 (2013.01); G01N 2015/1006 (2013.01); G01N 2015/1081 (2013.01); G01N 2015/1087 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention encompasses a micro-fluidic system having a closed-loop configuration in which inertial micro-fluidic separation of particles and/or cells is continuously repeated by feeding part of the output back to the input so that the purity and/or concentration of the particles and/or cell is maximized. The invention also includes methods of using the micro-fluidic system.