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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2024
Molecular Devices, Llc, San Jose, CA (US);
Timothy A. Floto, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Alison A. Glaser, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Lee Von Landau, Hampshire, GB;
John Phillips, San Jose, CA (US);
Kyle Corey, San Jose, CA (US);
Padmavathi Bandhuvula, Fremont, CA (US);
Anna Louise Forsyth, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Molecular Devices, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, including methods and apparatus, for growing viable monoclonal colonies, identifying them as monoclonal after their viability has been demonstrated, and picking and placing them into a target environment. The methods may include plating cells at low density in a well, capturing at a first time shortly after plating a series of vertically spaced-apart images of the well showing locations of the cells, capturing at a second, later time images of the same well showing locations of candidate cell colonies, determining a likelihood that the candidate colonies are monoclonal based on information in the first set of images, and, based on the likelihood, picking candidate colonies using a picking head for transfer to a target environment.