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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.:

US 10710120 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 21, 2018

Method and apparatus for sorting particles

Applicant:

Cytonome/st, Llc, Bedford, MA (US);

Inventors:

Manish Deshpande, Canton, MA (US);

John R. Gilbert, Brookline, MA (US);

Assignee:

CYTONOME/ST, LLC, Bedford, MA (US);

Attorneys:

McCarter & English, LLP

David R. Burns

Primary Examiner:

Joseph C Rodriguez

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B07C 5/36 (2006.01); G01N 15/10 (2006.01); B01L 3/00 (2006.01); B07C 5/34 (2006.01); F15C 5/00 (2006.01); F16K 99/00 (2006.01); G01N 15/14 (2006.01); B07C 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B07C 5/36 (2013.01); B01L 3/50273 (2013.01); B01L 3/502715 (2013.01); B01L 3/502761 (2013.01); B07C 5/02 (2013.01); B07C 5/34 (2013.01); F15C 5/00 (2013.01); F16K 99/0001 (2013.01); F16K 99/0019 (2013.01); F16K 99/0028 (2013.01); F16K 99/0046 (2013.01); F16K 99/0048 (2013.01); G01N 15/10 (2013.01); G01N 15/14 (2013.01); B01L 3/5027 (2013.01); B01L 2200/0652 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0654 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0816 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0877 (2013.01); B01L 2400/0487 (2013.01); G01N 2015/1075 (2013.01); G01N 2015/1081 (2013.01); G01N 2015/149 (2013.01); G01N 2015/1477 (2013.01); G01N 2015/1497 (2013.01); Y10S 209/906 (2013.01); Y10S 209/932 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and apparatus for sorting particles moving through a closed channel system of capillary size comprises actuators and chambers for selectively generating a pressure pulse to separate a particle having a predetermined characteristic from a stream of particles. The particle sorting system may further include a buffer for absorbing the pressure pulse. The particle sorting system may include a plurality of closely coupled sorting modules which are combined to further increase the sorting rate. The particle sorting system may comprise a multi-stage sorting device for serially sorting streams of particles, in order to decrease the error rate.

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