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US 8,507,236 B2Granted
Systems and methods for controlling objects
AssigneeUniversity of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
InventorsAristide Dogariu, Kiminobu Sugaya, Gabriel Biener
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Abstract
Systems and methods for controlling an object are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system and method pertain to irradiating the object with polarized electromagnetic radiation for a duration of time sufficient to effect a physical change with the object.
Claims13
A method for controlling a living cell, the method comprising:
- irradiating the cell with a broad field of polarized light having substantially no intensity gradient to apply an optical torque on the cell, the polarized light having a selected direction of polarization;
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- maintaining the irradiation of the cell with the polarized light for a duration of time sufficient to cause filaments of the cell to align with the direction of polarization.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.