US Patent Issued to Roche Sequencing Solutions on July 22 for "Non-destructive bilayer monitoring using measurement of bilayer response to electrical stimulus" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,941, issued on July 22, was assigned to Roche Sequencing Solutions Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Non-destructive bilayer monitoring using measurement of bilayer response to electrical stimulus" was invented by Kevin Aliado (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Roger J. A. Chen (Saratoga, Calif.), Jing Luo (Sacramento, Calif.), William Nielsen (San Jose, Calif.), Kyle Umeda (Saratoga, Calif.) and Ashraf Wahba (Hayward, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting a lipid bilayer formed in a cell of a nanopore based sequencing chip is disclosed. An integrating capacitor is coupled with a lipid membrane, wherein the lipid membrane is betwee...