US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on May 26 for "Deformability of a cell responsive to a pressure wave" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,645, issued on May 26, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Deformability of a cell responsive to a pressure wave" was invented by Fausto D'Apuzzo (Palo Alto, Calif.), Viktor Shkolnikov (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Alexander Govyadinov (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method for measuring deformability of a cell responsive to a pressure wave, consistent with the present disclosure, includes moving a cell of a sample into a cell probing chamber of a microfluidic device. While the cell is in the cell probing chamber, the method includes generating a pressure wave within the cell probi...