Patent 11524298 was granted and assigned to Miroculus on December, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Digital microfluidic (DMF) apparatuses and methods for optically-induced heating and manipulating droplets are described herein. DMF apparatuses employing photonic heating as described herein provide radical simplification of routing droplets/reagents in complex, multistep protocols and/or highly plexed workflows.