US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on March 4 for "Magnetoresistive sensor array for molecule detection and related detection schemes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,950, issued on March 4, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Magnetoresistive sensor array for molecule detection and related detection schemes" was invented by Patrick Braganca (San Jose, Calif.) and Daniel Bedau (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of sensing molecules using a detection device, the detection device comprising a plurality of magnetoresistive (MR) sensors and at least one fluidic channel, comprising adding a plurality of molecules to be detected to the at least one fluidic channel, wherein at least some of the plurality of molecules to be detected are coupled to ...