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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2017
Applicant:
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);
Inventors:
Viktor Shkolnikov, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Adam Higgins, Corvallis, OR (US);
Jeffrey A. Nielsen, Corvallis, OR (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 3/02 (2006.01); G01N 35/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 35/1074 (2013.01); B01L 3/0268 (2013.01); G01N 35/1011 (2013.01); B01L 2200/021 (2013.01); B01L 2200/025 (2013.01); B01L 2300/1827 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system for partitioning a liquid sample, the system including: an ejection device, the ejection device including an array of nozzles, wherein adjacent nozzles are separated by a constant distance in a first axis; and a microfluidics device including: a plurality of intake ports to receive a deposited droplet, wherein pairs of intake ports are separated by the same constant distance in the same first axis such that adjacent nozzles can simultaneously eject droplets to different intake ports.