US Patent Issued to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT on Aug. 26 for "Sorting a droplet including a biologic sample" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,293, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP (Spring, Texas).

"Sorting a droplet including a biologic sample" 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: "Examples herein involve sorting a droplet including a biologic sample. In a particular example, sorting a droplet including a biologic sample includes generating a droplet including a biologic sample and a pH sensitive surfactant, and heating a nucleic acid molecule in the biologic sample. The pH sensitive surfactant may change the surface tension of the droplet respo...