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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025

Filed:

Jan. 25, 2023
Applicant:

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);

Inventors:

Viktor Shkolnikov, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Chien-Hua Chen, Corvallis, OR (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 3/00 (2006.01); B01L 7/00 (2006.01); G01N 33/543 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 7/52 (2013.01); B01L 3/502761 (2013.01); G01N 33/54386 (2013.01); B01L 2300/12 (2013.01); B01L 2300/165 (2013.01); B01L 2300/1827 (2013.01); B01L 2400/0424 (2013.01); B01L 2400/086 (2013.01);
Abstract

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 enclosing a biological reagent therein. Each releasing feature in the array of releasing features corresponds to a retaining feature and is to selectively cause degradation of the shell of a capsule. Each releasing feature is to generate thermal energy to facilitate degradation of the shell. The controller is to selectively activate at least one releasing feature in the array of thermally controlled releasing features to release the biological reagent in the capsules positioned at the retaining feature corresponding to the activated releasing feature.


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