US Patent Issued to University of Washington on June 3 for "Systems and methods for improved nanopore-based analysis of nucleic acids" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,837, issued on June 3, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for improved nanopore-based analysis of nucleic acids" was invented by Jens H. Gundlach (Seattle), Matthew Noakes (Seattle) and Henry D. Brinkerhoff (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method of determining an identity of one or more monomer subunit residues of a polymer analyte is provided, In some embodiments, a raw current signal generated by using a variable voltage to translocate the polymer analyte through a nanopore. In some embodiments, change points are detected in the raw current sig...