ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,086, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Chemical lysis systems" was invented by Viktor Shkolnikov (Palo Alto, Calif.), Alexander Govyadinov (Corvallis, Ore.) and Diane R. Hammerstad (Corvallis, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a chemical lysis system is described. The chemical lysis system includes a microfluidic channel to serially feed individual cells from a volume of cells to at least one chemical lysing device. Each chemical lysing device includes at least one lysing chamber to receive, from the microfluidic channel,...