ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,531, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NANJING UNIVERSITY (Jiangsu, China).

"Nanopore single-molecule protein sequencer" was invented by Yitao Long (Jiangsu, China), Yilun Ying (Jiangsu, China), Rujia Yu (Jiangsu, China), Shaochuang Liu (Jiangsu, China), Mengyin Li (Jiangsu, China) and Xinyi Li (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a nanopore single-molecule protein sequencer, which mainly includes a nanopore array chip system, an ultra-low current detection system and a data processing and construction system; the chip mainly includes a chip of peptide charge screening, a chip of amino acid s...