Patents by Inventor Jonathan Tullis

Jonathan Tullis has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Microdroplet formation by wells in a microfluidic device
    Patent number: 9512466
    Abstract: A method of forming microdroplets is provided that includes forming a well plate, using lithography, where the well plate includes a microchannel and a microwell in a surface of the fluid channel, flowing a first fluid into the microchannel, where the microchannel and the microwell are filled with the first fluid, and flowing a second fluid into the microchannel, where the first fluid is displaced from the microchannel, where the first fluid remains in the microwell, where a microdroplet of the first fluid is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Santa Clara University
    Inventors: Paul Abbyad, Jonathan Tullis, Cedar A. Waldherr Smith
  • Microdroplet Formation by Wells in a Microfluidic Device
    Publication number: 20150267247
    Abstract: A method of forming microdroplets is provided that includes forming a well plate, using lithography, where the well plate includes a microchannel and a microwell in a surface of the fluid channel, flowing a first fluid into the microchannel, where the microchannel and the microwell are filled with the first fluid, and flowing a second fluid into the microchannel, where the first fluid is displaced from the microchannel, where the first fluid remains in the microwell, where a microdroplet of the first fluid is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Paul Abbyad, Jonathan Tullis, Cedar A. Waldherr Smith