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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2020
Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Bradley Kent Drews, Poway, CA (US);
Michael Dai Wang, San Diego, CA (US);
Umberto Ulmanella, San Diego, CA (US);
Stephen Wayne Clark, San Diego, CA (US);
Johanna Lynn Whitacre, San Diego, CA (US);
Steven Scott Phelps, San Diego, CA (US);
Michelle L. Alvarez, San Diego, CA (US);
Michael Adalbert Niziolek, San Diego, CA (US);
Debra Sue Bryan, San Diego, CA (US);
Joshua Augustin Darland, San Diego, CA (US);
Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
An analysis system may perform operations on an analyte that may be combined with multiple regents prior to being introduced into a flow cell. The instrument may include a volume into which the reagents to be combined with the analyte are aspirated one-by-one. The volume may be formed as a serpentine channel in a valve manifold associated with sippers for aspirating the reagents. The reagents may then be mixed by cycling a pump to move the reagents within the mixing volume or channel. For this, the reagents may be aspirated from a recipient into the volume or channel, ejected back into the recipient, and this process may be performed repeatedly to enhance mixing.