US Patent Issued to Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Sorbonne Universite, Paris Sciences et Lettres, UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE on Nov. 25 for "Device for the analysis of nucleic acid molecules" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,964, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (France), Sorbonne Universite (France), Paris Sciences et Lettres (France) and UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE (France).

"Device for the analysis of nucleic acid molecules" was invented by Vincent Croquette (Antony, France), David Bensimon (Paris), Jimmy Ouellet (Lardy, France), Jean-Francois Allemand (Bourg la Reine, France), Charles Andre (Paris) and Gordon Hamilton (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention proposes a device for analyzing nucleic acid molecules (M), comprising: -a bead (20), on which one molecule can be anchored at one end, ...