ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,113, issued on July 14, was assigned to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP (Spring, Texas).

"Single cell transfection with interchangeable reagent" was invented by Viktor Shkolnikov (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Alexander Govyadinov (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, method, and system can perform single cell transfection using a transfection chamber on a transfection chip. The system may include a fluidic channel located on the transfection chip for guiding a cell towards the transfection chamber, the fluidic channel sized to allow no more than a single cell to arrive at the transfection chamber at a time. The s...