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OwnerRichard Tella, William Fisher +3inventors
InventorsRichard Tella, William Fisher, Michael Caren, Lawrence DaQuino, Peter Webb
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Apparatus and methods are disclosed for printing a plurality of biopolymer features on the surfaces of substrates. An apparatus comprises a substrate mount for receiving a substrate, a dispensing device for dispensing reagents for synthesizing a biopolymer on a surface of the substrate, an optical system for positioning the substrate mount along a y-axis and an optical system for positioning the dispensing device along an x-axis. The apparatus may comprise a touch system for positioning the substrate and the dispensing device along a z-axis. One of the substrate mount or the dispensing device is adapted for translation along the y-axis and for rotation about a central axis that is parallel to a z-axis. The other of the above is adapted to move along the x-axis transversely to the direction of, and independently of, movement of the one adapted for translation along the y-axis. The optical systems cooperate to position the substrate mount and the dispensing device relative to one another. Also disclosed in conjunction with the apparatus and methods are washing stations and loading stations.
An apparatus comprising:
An apparatus for synthesizing a plurality of biopolymer features on the surface of a substrate, said apparatus comprising:
A method comprising:
A method for synthesizing an array of biopolymers on a surface of a substrate, said method comprising, in multiple rounds of subunit additions, adding one or more polymer subunits at each of multiple feature locations on said surface to form one or more arrays on said surface, each round of subunit additions comprising:
A method for washing droplet dispensing nozzles to remove residual reagents for synthesizing biopolymers, said method comprising:
An apparatus for washing droplet dispensing nozzles to remove residual reagents for synthesizing biopolymers, said apparatus comprising:
An apparatus for loading reagents into a dispensing device, said apparatus comprising one or more reagent receptacles and a retractable cover disposed over said receptacles.
An apparatus for washing a reagent dispensing device, said apparatus comprising one or more wet wash pads for wet washing a surface or a portion of the reagent dispensing device and one or more dry pads for dry wiping the reagent dispensing device.
An apparatus comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.