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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2010
Alfredo M. Morales, Livermore, CA (US);
Josh A. Whaley, Livermore, CA (US);
Mark D. Zimmerman, Livermore, CA (US);
Ronald F. Renzi, Tracy, CA (US);
Huu M. Tran, San Jose, CA (US);
Scott M. Maurer, Haymarket, VA (US);
William D. Munslow, Gainesville, VA (US);
Alfredo M. Morales, Livermore, CA (US);
Josh A. Whaley, Livermore, CA (US);
Mark D. Zimmerman, Livermore, CA (US);
Ronald F. Renzi, Tracy, CA (US);
Huu M. Tran, San Jose, CA (US);
Scott M. Maurer, Haymarket, VA (US);
William D. Munslow, Gainesville, VA (US);
Sandia Corporation, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Abstract
A new microfluidic system comprising an automated prototype insulator-based dielectrophoresis (iDEP) triggering microfluidic device for pathogen monitoring that can eventually be run outside the laboratory in a real world environment has been used to demonstrate the feasibility of automated trapping and detection of particles. The system broadly comprised an aerosol collector for collecting air-borne particles, an iDEP chip within which to temporarily trap the collected particles and a laser and fluorescence detector with which to induce a fluorescence signal and detect a change in that signal as particles are trapped within the iDEP chip.