US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on May 19 for "Nucleic acid amplification" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,684, issued on May 19, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Nucleic acid amplification" 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: "Examples relate to techniques for performing a nucleic acid amplification reaction. The method includes generating a nucleic acid solution comprising a plurality of nucleic acid molecules, and combining the nucleic acid solution with a plurality of chamber particles. Each chamber particle includes a chamber for receiving the nucleic acid solution, wherein the chamber receives, at most, one of...