MUMBAI, India, Nov. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611116318 A) filed by Noida Institute Of Engineering And Technology Niet on September 28, 2026, for Closed-Loop Microfluidic Droplet Transport System With Integrated Actuators, Optical Sensing And Automatic Routing.
Inventors include Mr. Ved Prakash; and Mr. Pulkit Srivastava.
The application for the patent was published on October 30, 2026, under issue no. 44/2026.
Abstract: A closed-loop microfluidic droplet transport system (100) comprising a microfluidic chip assembly (110) with a branched microchannel network (112) having selectable junction gates (114), a spatiotemporal actuator array (120) with piezoelectric micro-actuator elements (122), an optical sensing module (130) with micro-LED illumination (132) and CMOS photodetector (134) arrays coupled with an FPGA-based image processing unit (136) implementing Beer-Lambert deconvolution for real-time droplet state extraction, a control processing unit (140) with a Kalman filter state estimator (142), a Pontryagin-based optimal control solver (144), a transport strategy selector (146) that adaptively switches between translate-relax and compact-translate-relax modes, and a stability monitor (148) ensuring exponential convergence through control Lyapunov function evaluation, an automatic routing module (150) with collision avoidance (154) and priority scheduling (156), and a lab- on-chip functional layer (160) with reaction chamber
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