Patent ID: 11867460
Assignee: GEN-PROBE INCORPORATED
Field: Basic materials chemistry (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC F  A  B | IPC A  B  F

Claim 10:
11. A method comprising: (a) dispensing, by a liquid dispenser located above a surface of a freezing fluid, a droplet of liquid into a fluid chamber containing the freezing fluid; (b) after step (a), allowing the droplet of liquid to dwell in the freezing fluid for at least a predetermined dwell time so that the droplet of liquid freezes to a frozen droplet; (c) after step (a), transporting the fluid chamber by a transporter from a first position below the liquid dispenser to a second position below a gas injector, and (d) after steps (b) and (c), injecting a stream of gas, by the gas injector located above the surface of the freezing fluid, transversely to the surface of the freezing fluid toward where the frozen droplet is located along the surface of the freezing fluid so that the frozen droplet sinks in the freezing fluid.