System for forming an array of emulsions

US9216392B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Benjamin Hindson · Pleasanton, US
• Kevin Ness · Pleasanton, US
• Billy W. Colston, Jr. · San Ramon, US
• Fred P. Milanovich · Lafayette, US
• Donald A. Masquelier · Tracy, US
• Anthony Makarewicz · Livermore, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 7, 2010
• Grant date: Dec 22, 2015
• Expiry date: Aug 31, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02A90/10
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

System, including apparatus and methods, for forming an array of emulsions. The system may comprise a plate including an array of emulsion production units. Each unit may include at least one first input well, a second input well, and an output well connected to the first and second input wells by channels that form a droplet generator. The system also may comprise a vacuum or pressure source configured to be connected operatively to wells of the plate to form a pressure drop between the input wells and the output well of each unit that is capable of driving a first fluid and a second fluid from respective first and second input wells of such unit and through the droplet generator, for collection as an emulsion in the output well of such unit.