US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on July 14 for "Reagent delivery networks" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,785, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Reagent delivery networks" 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: "A reagent delivery network can include an inlet microfluidic channel, a microfluidic cross-channel branching off from the inlet microfluidic channel, a resistor positioned along the inlet microfluidic channel at a location to redirect fluid from the inlet microfluidic channel into the microfluidic cross-channel, and an outlet microfluidic channel having a side-wall opening connected to the m...