US Patent Issued to IMEC VZW on Oct. 27 for "Nanopore system for sensing using identification molecules and method thereof" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,982, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).

"Nanopore system for sensing using identification molecules and method thereof" was invented by Mark Veugelers (Merelbeke, Belgium), Koen Martens (Aalter, Belgium) and Pol Van Dorpe (Spalbeek, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current disclosure relates to methods and systems for detecting a target molecule in a sample by using identification molecules linked to assay molecules, wherein the assay molecules bind the target, and where the identification molecules are isolated from the sample and run through a nanopore sensor for detecting the target molecule."...