US 12,283,264 B2
Targeted multifocal lens for biological sample processing and related methods
Jinwook Kim, Chapel Hill, NC (US); Sandeep Kasoji, Durham, NC (US); Paul Dayton, Carrboro, NC (US); and Joe McMahon, Chapel Hill, NC (US)
Assigned to Triangle Biotechnology, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC (US); and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (US)
Appl. No. 17/640,073
Filed by Triangle Biotechnology, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC (US); and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (US)
PCT Filed Sep. 4, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/049386
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 3, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/046338, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/026,186, filed on May 18, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/897,057, filed on Sep. 6, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0328032 A1, Oct. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. G10K 11/30 (2006.01); B06B 1/06 (2006.01); B33Y 80/00 (2015.01); C12M 1/00 (2006.01); G01N 29/22 (2006.01)
CPC G10K 11/30 (2013.01) [B06B 1/0622 (2013.01); B06B 1/067 (2013.01); C12M 47/06 (2013.01); G01N 29/221 (2013.01); B33Y 80/00 (2014.12)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sonicator system for sonicating materials in a sample array, the system comprising:
a transducer layer configured to emit acoustic energy; and
a multifocus acoustic lens layer configured to focus the acoustic energy from the transducer layer to the sample array to thereby simultaneously sonicate materials in the sample array, wherein the multifocus lens layer is formed by holography techniques.