US Patent Issued to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY on March 24 for "Imprint method for fabrication of low density nanopore membrane" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,192, issued on March 24, was assigned to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Imprint method for fabrication of low density nanopore membrane" was invented by Thomas Chang (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Kim Yang Lee (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a synthetic nanopore device for DNA sequencing disclosed herein includes providing a base template, forming a guiding layer on top of the base template, and forming a photoresist layer on top of the guiding layer. The photoresist layer is patterned, and the guiding layer is etched for form a guiding pattern. The photoresist layer is removed to form...