Patent ID: 9388945
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: B01F,B01L,F17D,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A device for forming and holding an emulsion to be at least partially aspirated into a tip of a fluid-aspiration device, the tip having a flat end surrounding an inlet, the device comprising: a sample input channel; one or more carrier input channels; a droplet output channel; a droplet generation region configured to form droplets of an emulsion, the droplet generation region being created where the sample input channel, the one or more carrier input channels, and the droplet output channel meet one another; and an outlet well fluidically connected to the droplet generation region via the droplet output channel, the outlet well including a floor having one or more surface features that prevent uninterrupted circumferential contact of the flat end of the tip with the floor.