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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2018
Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Jennifer Olivia Foley, San Diego, CA (US);
Darren Segale, San Diego, CA (US);
Cyril Delattre, San Diego, CA (US);
ILLUMINA, INC., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A system includes a droplet actuator having a droplet-operation gap between top and bottom substrates, a reservoir(s) external to and coupled to the droplet actuator, the reservoir(s) sized for a large-volume fluid, and pressure source(s) external to the droplet actuator and coupled to the at least one reservoir. Operation of the system includes filling the reservoir(s) with a large volume of fluid(s), dispensing droplet(s) of the fluid(s) to the droplet-operation gap using the pressure source(s) as part of performing a droplet operation(s). Movement of the droplet(s) may be effectuated by activating the droplet actuator.