US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY on May 26 for "Direct electrical readout of nucleic acid sequences" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,711, issued on May 26, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Direct electrical readout of nucleic acid sequences" was invented by Stuart Lindsay (Phoenix), Bintian Zhang (Tempe, Ariz.) and Hanqing Deng (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for direct measurement of polymerase activity. In one example, a device includes at least a first electrode and a second electrode, the first and second electrode being separated by a gap; and a polymerase with two attachment sites, one for attaching to the first electrode and a second fo...