ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,129, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong).

"Systems and methods for inertial-kinetic capture and sensing of single molecules" was invented by Ho-Pui Ho (Hong Kong), Jianxin Yang (Hong Kong) and Wu Yuan (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject invention pertains to a nanopore sensing device for inertial-kinetic translocation and sensing of single molecules. Some embodiments comprise a centrifuge rotor; a centrifuge tube; single or multiple flow cell modules; a nanopore module consisting of single or multiple nanopores; a signal detection module; a signal amplifier module; a cont...