US Patent Issued to University of Washington on Feb. 10 for "Nanopore-based analysis of protein characteristics" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,744, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Nanopore-based analysis of protein characteristics" was invented by Jens H. Gundlach (Seattle), Ian Michael Derrington (Seattle), Andrew Laszlo (Seattle), Jonathan Craig (Seattle) and Henry Brinkerhoff (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for nanopore-based protein analysis are provided. The methods address the characterization of a target protein analyte, which has a dimension greater than an internal diameter of the nanopore tunnel, and which is also physically associated with a polymer. The methods further comprise applying an electrical potent...