Patent 9273308 was granted and assigned to RainDance Technologies on March, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention provides novel microfluidic substrates and methods that are useful for performing biological, chemical and diagnostic assays. The substrates can include a plurality of electrically addressable, channel bearing fluidic modules integrally arranged such that a continuous channel is provided for flow of immiscible fluids.