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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
May. 07, 2012
Applicants:
Siva A. Vanapalli, Lubbock, TX (US);
Swastika S. Bithi, Lubbock, TX (US);
Meng Sun, Lubbock, TX (US);
Inventors:
Siva A. Vanapalli, Lubbock, TX (US);
Swastika S. Bithi, Lubbock, TX (US);
Meng Sun, Lubbock, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Tech University System, Lubbock, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12M 1/00 (2006.01); B01L 3/00 (2006.01); G01N 35/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12M 47/02 (2013.01); B01L 3/502784 (2013.01); G01N 35/1002 (2013.01); B01L 2200/0668 (2013.01); B01L 2200/0673 (2013.01); B01L 2300/088 (2013.01); B01L 2400/0487 (2013.01); G01N 2035/1034 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49 (2015.01);
Abstract
The present invention includes a microfluidic device comprising one or more parking loops, each parking loopcomprising a bypass channeland a lower branchcapable of retaining one or more drops, wherein bypass channelhas a smaller hydrodynamic resistance than the lower branch