US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS on behalf of ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY on June 3 for "System and method for single molecule detection" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,797, issued on June 3, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS on behalf of ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method for single molecule detection" was invented by Stuart Lindsay (Phoenix), Peiming Zhang (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Yanan Zhao (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single molecule sensing or detecting device includes a first electrode and a second electrode separated from the first electrode by a gap. The first electrode and the second electrode have an opening formed therethrough. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is functionalized with a recognition molecule. The r...