ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,511, issued on July 29, was assigned to Roche Sequencing Solutions Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).
"Osmotic imbalance methods for bilayer formation" was invented by Geoffrey Barrall (San Jose, Calif.), Licheng Niu (San Jose, Calif.) and Pirooz Parvarandeh (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a plurality of lipid bilayers over an array of cells in a nanopore based sequencing chip is disclosed. Each of the cells comprises a well. A first salt buffer solution with a first osmolarity is flowed over a cell in the nanopore based sequencing chip to substantially fill a well in the cell with the first salt b...