US Patent Issued to Roche Sequencing Solutions on Feb. 18 for "Removing and reinserting protein nanopores in a membrane using osmotic imbalance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,766, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Roche Sequencing Solutions Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Removing and reinserting protein nanopores in a membrane using osmotic imbalance" was invented by Geoffrey Barrall (San Diego), Takeshi Harada (San Jose, Calif.), Jason Komadina (Fremont, Calif.), Pirooz Parvarandeh (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Charlotte Yang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for replacing nanopores within a nanopore based sequencing chip are provided. A first electrolyte solution is added to the external reservoir of the sequencing chip, introducing an osmotic imbalance between the reservoir and ...