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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2020
Applicant:
Miroculus Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jorge Abraham Soto-Moreno, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory Arthur Ray, San Francisco, CA (US);
Foteini Christodoulou, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
mirOculus Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 3/502792 (2013.01); B01L 2200/04 (2013.01); B01L 2200/147 (2013.01); B01L 2300/168 (2013.01); B01L 2300/1861 (2013.01); B01L 2300/1894 (2013.01); B01L 2400/0427 (2013.01);
Abstract
Digital microfluidic (DMF) apparatuses and methods for optically-induced heating and manipulating droplets are described herein. DMF apparatuses employing photonic heating as described herein provide radical simplification of routing droplets/reagents in complex, multistep protocols and/or highly plexed workflows.