US Patent Issued to Illumina on March 17 for "Polypeptide nanopores synthetically functionalized with positively charged species, and methods of making and using the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,321, issued on March 17, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Polypeptide nanopores synthetically functionalized with positively charged species, and methods of making and using the same" was invented by Lisa Savagian (San Diego), Burton Simpson (San Diego), Sang Park (San Diego), Boyan Boyanov (San Diego), Jeffrey G. Mandell (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.) and Seth M. McDonald (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Polypeptide nanopores synthetically functionalized with positively charged species, and methods of making and using the same, are provided herein. In some examples, a polypeptide nanopore includes a first side, a sec...