ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,678, issued on March 3.
"Graphene nanopore device for sequencing nucleic acids" was invented by Krista Fretes (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nano-sensing device is disclosed for high throughput nucleic acid sequencing. The device is a silicon chip, having a silicon substrate with a groove or well, a microfluidic channel, and a polarized multilayer graphene sheet with nanopores about 0.3 to 3.0 nm wide. A base substrate layer of silicon nitride, alumina, or boron nitride may be employed. Ionic forces cause a nucleic acid strand to translocate through the nanopore. The specific nucleobases comprising the nucleic acid can be...