US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 11 for "Systems and methods of delivering target molecules to a nanopore" (California, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,503, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of delivering target molecules to a nanopore" was invented by Holger Schmidt (Capitola, Calif.), Aaron Roe Hawkins (Provo, Utah) and David W. Deamer (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed system uses modulations of ionic current across a nanopore in a membrane to detect target molecules passing through the nanopore. This principle has been applied mainly to nucleic acid sequencing, but can also be used to detect other molecular targets such as proteins and small molecules. In addition, th...