US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on Sept. 16 for "Deterministic control of polymer molecule translocation through a nanopore" (Massachusetts, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,625, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Deterministic control of polymer molecule translocation through a nanopore" was invented by Daniel Branton (Lexington, Mass.), Stephen Jordan Fleming (Cincinnati) and Jene A. Golovchenko (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for controlling translocation of a target polymer molecule through a nanopore, a clamp is reversibly bound at a site along the target polymer molecule length; the clamp and the target polymer molecule are disposed in an ionic solution that is in fluidic communication with a nanopore havin...