US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Sept. 15 for "Apparatuses and methods for determining analyte charge" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,520, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Apparatuses and methods for determining analyte charge" was invented by Kee-Hyun Paik (Stanford, Calif.), Henrik H.J. Persson (Stanford, Calif.), Billy Tsz Cheong Lau (Stanford, Calif.), Hanlee P. Ji (Stanford, Calif.), Robert W. Dutton (Stanford, Calif.), Yang Liu (Stanford, Calif.) and Ronald W. Davis (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a sensor including a pore and an applied electric field that is capable of detecting analytes such as nucleic acids. In accordanc...