From chips with channels as small as 7 nanometers to medical-device chips that diagnose and treat neurological disease — AI LAX has been the imaging backbone of Proto Products' continuous research, development, testing, and improvement pipeline.
Proto Products is a microfluidics manufacturer that designs and 3D-prints its own chips using stereolithography and UV-curable resin. Rather than treating each chip run as a one-off, Proto Products runs a continuous improvement loop — manufacture, research, development, testing, and improvement — where every iteration feeds the next.
AI LAX sits at the heart of that loop. It provides the imaging, analysis, and fidelity-verified capture that lets Proto Products see sub-7-nanometer detail, verify every printed structure frame by frame, and turn raw imaging into publishable, reproducible research.
Proto Products designs and manufactures its microfluidic chips in-house using UV stereolithography. AI LAX provides the imaging intelligence that verifies quality, captures data, and drives each design iteration.
Proto Products continuously manufactures microfluidic chips with channels down to 7 nanometers — small enough to manipulate individual molecules and cells with extraordinary precision. Every channel is printed with UV stereolithography, and every print is verified under AI LAX.
Chips are designed and 'printed' with 385 µm UV printers using stereolithography-grade UV resin. This additive process allows complex internal geometries that conventional machining cannot achieve — and AI LAX verifies each layer as it prints.
Proto Products doesn't ship and stop. Every chip runs through a closed loop where AI LAX captures, analyzes, and preserves data that engineers use to drive the next generation.
UV stereolithography prints chips with sub-10nm channels in a continuous, repeatable pipeline.
AI LAX captures and analyzes each chip, surfacing structural detail that informs the next design.
Per-pixel fidelity maps verify every printed channel against spec — no fabricated detail, no missed defects.
Findings feed directly back into the design loop, tightening tolerances and improving yield each generation.
Proto Products' first major chip family sorts cells with unprecedented granularity — enabling more targeted drug testing and development. AI LAX powers the imaging that makes each separation validated and verifiable.
Isolate specific cell populations — immune, epithelial, neural — for focused downstream analysis.
Geometry-based sorting distinguishes healthy from deformed cells at single-cell resolution.
Flag disease-affected cells so researchers can study pathology in isolation.
Identify infected cells to enable directed antimicrobial and antiviral drug screening.
When cells can be separated by type, shape, disease state, or infection, drug developers can run highly targeted assays instead of bulk, noisy samples. Results are cleaner, hit rates are higher, and lead compounds reach validation sooner.
AI LAX traces and counts every separated cell, preserving the raw capture as proof — so Proto Products and its partners can publish with confidence.
Multi-Electrode Array (MEA) chips were developed to assist in diagnosing, treating, and researching MLS and other myelin-degrading neurological pathologies — delivering a more streamlined, budget-friendly manufacturing pipeline.
Myelin degradation underlies some of the most devastating neurological conditions — from multiple sclerosis to a growing class of terminal illnesses. Proto Products' MEA chips provide a platform to diagnose, treat, and research these pathologies at the neural level.
Proto Products' mission goes beyond chips — it's about making life-saving treatments faster to discover and cheaper to produce.
With AI LAX, we've been able to verify chips with 7nm channels, separate cells we couldn't before, and build a MEA pipeline that could lower the cost of treating terminal neurological disease — all while keeping every raw frame intact. It's not just an imaging tool. It's the eyes of our entire research loop.— VP of Engineering, Proto Products
Whether you're printing sub-10nm chips or developing next-generation medical devices, AI LAX gives you the imaging intelligence to see it, verify it, and improve it.