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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:
Jun. 05, 2018

Filed:

Dec. 10, 2013
Applicants:

University of Virginia Patent Foundation, Charlottesville, VA (US);

The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);

Inventors:

James P. Landers, Charlottesville, VA (US);

Matthew R. Begley, Goleta, CA (US);

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 35/157 (2006.01); F16K 99/00 (2006.01); B01L 3/00 (2006.01); G05D 7/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 35/1573 (2013.01); B01L 3/502715 (2013.01); B01L 3/502738 (2013.01); F16K 99/0021 (2013.01); F16K 99/0028 (2013.01); F16K 99/0034 (2013.01); G05D 7/0676 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0816 (2013.01); B01L 2400/0655 (2013.01); F16K 2099/0084 (2013.01);
Abstract

A mechanical input to a fluidic filter network can be actuated. The fluidic filter network can include respective branches fluidically coupling the mechanical input to respective deformable mechanical outputs. A mechanical displacement can be selectively coupled a selected deformable mechanical output of the fluidic filter network to a deformable mechanical input of a microfluidic device. A fluid flow in a portion of the microfluidic device can be controlled using the displacement, the selected deformable mechanical output can be selected at least in part by actuating the mechanical input to produce a displacement having energy in a specified range of frequencies, and the fluidic filter network is generally fluidically isolated from the microfluidic device.


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