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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2020
Miroculus Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Mais Jehan Jebrail, Toronto, CA;
Mathieu Gabriel-Emmanuel Chauleau, San Francisco, CA (US);
Poornasree Kumar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eduardo Cervantes, San Francisco, CA (US);
Foteini Christodoulou, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nikolay Sergeev, San Francisco, CA (US);
Spencer Seiler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alejandro Tocigl Domeyko, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ana Eugenia Carvajal, San Francisco, CA (US);
mirOculus Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Air-matrix digital microfluidics (DMF) apparatuses and methods of using them. These methods and apparatuses may include the use of a liquid wax coating material and/or pinning the encapsulated reaction droplet within the air gap using pinning features. Any of these methods may also include separating the liquid wax from an encapsulated aqueous droplet, e.g., using an oil absorbent wick to selectively separate the liquid oil or wax from the aqueous droplet by adsorbing and/or absorbing the liquid wax into the absorbent wick while leaving the aqueous droplet behind.