US Patent Issued to ELECTRONIC BIOSCIENCES on Feb. 4 for "Nanopore/nanowell electrode enabled exonuclease sequencing" (Utah, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,347, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to ELECTRONIC BIOSCIENCES INC. (San Diego).

"Nanopore/nanowell electrode enabled exonuclease sequencing" was invented by Anna E. P. Schibel (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Eric N. Ervin (Holladay, Utah) and Sean German (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods are provided for identifying individual monomeric units in sequential order as they are released or cleaved from a polymer strand via an enzyme, which acts on the polymer, and the monomeric units translocate through a transmembrane channel. Methods are also provided for identifying molecules as they translocate through a transmem...