US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Feb. 24 for "Thermal cell lysis chamber with lysis control circuitry" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,711, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Thermal cell lysis chamber with lysis control circuitry" was invented by Alexander Govyadinov (Corvallis, Ore.) and Viktor Shkolnikov (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus comprises a thermal cell lysis chamber, including a substrate and a lid coupled to the substrate to form a microfluidic channel therethrough. The apparatus includes cell detection circuitry to detect presence of a cell within the microfluidic channel and to detect lysis of the cell. The apparatus also includes a thermal lysing element dispos...