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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 29, 2018
Applicants:

The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);

Inventors:

Ashley Lynne Beckwith, Cambridge, MA (US);

Jeffrey Borenstein, Newton, MA (US);

Nathan Moore, Canton, MA (US);

Daniel Doty, Arlington, MA (US);

Luis Fernando Velásquez-Gracía, Cambridge, MA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 3/00 (2006.01); B29C 64/393 (2017.01); B29C 64/135 (2017.01); B81C 1/00 (2006.01); B33Y 10/00 (2015.01); B33Y 80/00 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 3/502707 (2013.01); B29C 64/135 (2017.08); B29C 64/393 (2017.08); B81C 1/00071 (2013.01); B01L 2200/12 (2013.01); B33Y 10/00 (2014.12); B33Y 80/00 (2014.12); B81B 2201/058 (2013.01); B81B 2203/0338 (2013.01); Y10T 428/24744 (2015.01);
Abstract

This disclosure describes techniques for fabricating a high-resolution, non-cytotoxic and transparent microfluidic device. A material can be selected based on having an optical property with a predetermined degree of transparency to provide viewability of a biological sample through the microfluidic device and a level of cytotoxicity within a predetermined threshold to provide viability of the biological sample within the microfluidic device. An additive manufacturing technique can be selected from a plurality of additive manufacturing techniques for fabricating the microfluidic device based on the selected material to provide a resolution of dimensions of one or more channels of the microfluidic device higher than a predetermined resolution threshold.


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