US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Feb. 3 for "Detecting passage of a particle into a target location" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,514, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Detecting passage of a particle into a target location" was invented by Jeffrey A. Nielsen (Corvallis, Ore.), Viktor Shkolnikov (Palo Alto, Calif.), Erica Midttveit (Corvallis, Ore.), Roberto A. Pugliese (Corvallis, Ore.), Matthew D. Smith (Corvallis, Ore.), Michael J. Day (Corvallis, Ore.) and Diane R. Hammerstad (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting passage of a particle into a target location includes receiving a sample on a die including a microfluidic chamber, the microfluidic chamber including a microfluidi...