US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA on Sept. 29 for "Circuit design to apply different voltages in a nanopore array" (California, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,471, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).

"Circuit design to apply different voltages in a nanopore array" was invented by Mohsen Rezaei (Brown Deer, Wis.), Xu Liu (Foster City, Calif.) and Arvin Emadi (Hayward, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the disclosed technology relates to systems and methods for sequencing polynucleotides. In one embodiment, the disclosed system for sequencing polynucleotides includes: a sequencing cell comprising a nanopore for sensing a polynucleotide; an electronic circuit configured to measure an electrical response in the sequencing cell, the electronic circ...