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US 11,077,415 B2Granted
Methods for forming mixed droplets
AssigneeBio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
InventorsYevgeny Yurkovetsky, Darren Roy Link, Jonathan William Larson
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Abstract
The invention generally relates to methods for forming mixed droplets. In certain embodiments, methods of the invention involve forming a droplet, and contacting the droplet with a fluid stream, wherein a portion of the fluid stream integrates with the droplet to form a mixed droplet.
Claims12
A microfluidic device comprising:
- a substrate comprising at least a first channel, a second channel, and a merge area at a junction of the first channel with the second channel, the first channel comprising a droplet track configured to steer a droplet of a first fluid flowing therethrough away from a center streamline of the first channel and towards an emerging bolus of a second fluid on entering the merge area at the junction with the second channel to form a mixed droplet comprising the first fluid and the second fluid, wherein the microfluidic device does not include electrodes positioned to create an electric field in the junction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.