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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2020
Bio-rad Laboratories, Inc., Hercules, CA (US);
Kalyan Handique, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Austin Payne, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Hercules, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for receiving and delivering a fluid, the system comprising: a body configured to interface with an opening of a reservoir and defining: a protrusion defining a set position of the body relative to the reservoir; a wall extending from the protrusion; a receiving surface coupled to the wall and sloping from an apex to a nadir along a first direction, the receiving surface comprising a vent; and an outlet positioned closer to the nadir than the apex of the receiving surface and displaced from the vent, the outlet comprising an extension from the body, the extension configured to contact an interior wall of the reservoir, wherein the body comprises: a bubble-mitigating operation mode in which the receiving surface receives and transmits the fluid along the receiving surface, and a fluid-transmitting operation mode in which the body directs the fluid along the interior wall of the reservoir.