US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on July 1 for "Thermally controlled reagent release" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,728, issued on July 1, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Thermally controlled reagent release" was invented by Viktor Shkolnikov (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Chien-Hua Chen (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes an array of retaining features in a microfluidic cavity, an array of thermally controlled releasing features, and a controller coupled to each releasing feature in the array of releasing feature. Each retaining feature in the array of retaining features is to position capsules at a predetermined location, the capsules having a thermally degradable shell enclosin...