ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,497, issued on May 13, was assigned to Roche Sequencing Solutions Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).
"Methods for forming lipid bilayers on biochips" was invented by Randall W. Davis (Pleasanton, Calif.), Edward Shian Liu (Saratoga, Calif.), Eric Takeshi Harada (San Jose, Calif.), Anne Aguirre (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew Trans (Mountain View, Calif.), James Pollard (Mountain View, Calif.) and Cynthia Cech (Newcastle, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a biochip comprising a plurality of wells. The biochip includes a membrane that is disposed in or adjacent to an individual well of the plurality of wells. The membran...