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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2016
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Murat Baday, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Naside Gozde Durmus, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Semih Calamak, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Utkan Demirci, Stanford, CA (US);
Ronald W. Davis, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Lars Steinmetz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jaeyoung Yang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Thiruppathiraja Chinnasamy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Alessandro Tocchio, San Francisco, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for levitating populations of moieties, cells, or other such units using one or more magnets in a microfluidic environment are provided. These systems and methods may be used to, for example, separate or sort heterogeneous populations of the units from one another, to assembly a multi-unit assembly during the levitating of the units, and to evaluate samples at the point of care in real-time. These systems and methods may also utilize a frame that enables an imaging device, such as a smartphone, to capture the units in real time as they are manipulated in the system.