US Patent Issued to Roche Sequencing Solutions on May 13 for "Nanopore-based sequencing with varying voltage stimulus" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,272, issued on May 13, was assigned to Roche Sequencing Solutions Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Nanopore-based sequencing with varying voltage stimulus" was invented by Roger J. A. Chen (Saratoga, Calif.), Hui Tian (Cupertino, Calif.) and J. William Maney Jr. (Emerald Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of analyzing a molecule in a nanopore is disclosed. A voltage is applied across a nanopore that is inserted in a membrane by coupling the nanopore to a voltage source. The nanopore is decoupled from the voltage source. After the decoupling, a rate of decay of the voltage across the nanopore is determined. A molecule in...