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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025
Filed:
May. 19, 2021
Owl Biomedical, Inc., Goleta, CA (US);
John S Foster, New Orleans, LA (US);
Mehran Hoonejani, Goleta, CA (US);
Kevin Shields, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Hansueli Meyer, Acton, MA (US);
Robert Pinard, Lowell, MA (US);
Matthias Wahl, Solingen, DE;
Owl biomedical, Inc., Goleta, CA (US);
Abstract
A microfabricated droplet dispensing structure is described, which may include a MEMS microfluidic fluidic valve, configured to open and close a microfluidic channel. The opening and closing of the valve may separate a target biological particle containing genomic material, and a bead from a sample stream, and direct these two particle into a single droplet formed at the edge of the substrate. The droplet may then be encased in a sheath flow of an immiscible fluid, and provided to a sequencing module. The sequencing module may sequence the genomic material and/or an identifying barcode attached to the bead.