US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on May 19 for "Alignment and fusion of cells with an electrical field" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,816, issued on May 19, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Alignment and fusion of cells with an electrical field" 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 method of alignment and fusion of cells with an electrical field includes firing a first fluid dispenser of an electrofusion device until a first impedance sensor in a first microfluidic channel of the electrofusion device detects a presence of a first cell. The method includes firing a second fluid dispenser of the electrofusion device until a second impedance s...