ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,826, issued on May 5, was assigned to Roche Sequencing Solutions Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Multi-chip packaging of integrated circuits and flow cells for nanopore sequencing" was invented by Yuri Mitnick (San Jose, Calif.), Xu Ouyang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Janusz B. Wojtowicz (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nanopore-based sequencing system includes a plurality of nanopore-based sequencing chips. Each of the nanopore-based sequencing chips comprises a plurality of nanopore sensors. The system comprises at least one flow cell coupled to at least one of the plurality of nanopore-based sequencing chips, wherein the f...