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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2017
Keith Joseph Breinlinger, San Rafael, CA (US);
Eric D. Hobbs, Livermore, CA (US);
Dorian Liepmann, Lafayette, CA (US);
Joshua Tanner Nevill, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Mark P. White, San Francisco, CA (US);
Maria Jimena Loureiro, Albany, CA (US);
Keith Joseph Breinlinger, San Rafael, CA (US);
Eric D. Hobbs, Livermore, CA (US);
Dorian Liepmann, Lafayette, CA (US);
Joshua Tanner Nevill, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Mark P. White, San Francisco, CA (US);
Maria Jimena Loureiro, Albany, CA (US);
BRUKER CELLULAR ANALYSIS, INC., Emeryville, CA (US);
Abstract
Some configurations of a microfluidic apparatus can comprise a fluidic circuit of interconnected fluidic structures into which a plurality of different media can be introduced or extracted. A variety of operations can be performed with the different media including isolating with a second medium one or more of the fluidic structures that is filled partially or fully with a first medium. Discrete volumes of a medium can be moved through the isolating second medium to deliver materials or micro-objects to or remove micro-objects or materials from a fluidic structure that is otherwise isolated by the second medium. Some configurations of a microfluidic apparatus can isolate microfluidic structures in a microfluidic apparatus using flow rates or blocking structures, and some configurations can manage bubbles in fluidic structures.