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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2017
Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Johanna L. Whitacre, San Diego, CA (US);
Steven S. Phelps, San Diego, CA (US);
Bradley Kent Drews, Poway, CA (US);
Debra Sue Bryan, II, San Diego, CA (US);
Michael A. Niziolek, San Diego, CA (US);
Joshua A. Darland, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Umberto Ulmanella, San Diego, CA (US);
Michael Dai Wang, San Diego, CA (US);
Michelle L. Alvarez, Encinitas, CA (US);
Stephen Wayne Clark, San Diego, CA (US);
ILLUMINA, INC., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes, under control of control circuitry implementing a mixing protocol, aspirating reagents from multiple different reagent reservoirs into a cache channel. Designated amounts of the reagents are automatically aspirated from the corresponding reagent reservoirs by corresponding sippers based on the mixing protocol implemented by the control circuitry. The method also includes discharging the reagents from the cache channel into a mixing reservoir, and mixing the reagents within the mixing reservoir to form a reagent mixture.