US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University on Jan. 28 for "High density and multiplexed nanopore devices with transverse tunneling junction for biomolecule detection and sequencing" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,986, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"High density and multiplexed nanopore devices with transverse tunneling junction for biomolecule detection and sequencing" was invented by Quan Qing (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for delivering and/or linking molecules, such as DNA, between tunable metal nanogaps and measuring electrical and/or optical properties. In one example, disclosed are high density multiplexed chips with a plurality of groups, each group including a plurality of nanodevices, the chips ...