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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2014

Filed:

Jun. 09, 2006
Applicants:

Narayanan Sundararajan, San Francisco, CA (US);

Andrew Berlin, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Narayanan Sundararajan, San Francisco, CA (US);

Andrew Berlin, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 3/00 (2006.01); B01F 13/00 (2006.01); G01N 15/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01F 13/0062 (2013.01); G01N 15/1404 (2013.01); B01L 3/502707 (2013.01); B01L 3/502776 (2013.01); B01L 2200/0636 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0887 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0874 (2013.01); G01N 2015/1413 (2013.01); B01L 3/502715 (2013.01);
Abstract

A micro-fluidic device containing a micro-fluidic inlet channel to convey a process flow, a plurality of micro-fluidic focusing channels to each convey one of a plurality of focusing flows, a focusing manifold coupled with the inlet channel at an inlet port thereof and with the plurality of focusing channels at a plurality of focusing channel ports thereof to focus the process flow by contacting and hydrodynamically impacting at least three sides of the process flow with the focusing flows, and a micro-fluidic outlet channel coupled with the focusing manifold at an outlet channel port to convey the combined focused process flow and focusing flow from the focusing manifold.


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