US Patent Issued to University of Kansas on Sept. 8 for "Nano-coulter counter for detection of biological nanoparticles" (Louisiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,054, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kan.).

"Nano-coulter counter for detection of biological nanoparticles" was invented by Steven Allan Soper (Baton Rouge, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nano-Coulter counter (nCC) device can include: an inlet; a plurality of nanochannels having a nanopore, wherein each nanochannel includes an inlet tapered region coupled to an inlet of the nanopore, wherein each nanopore has the second cross-dimension of at least about 50 nm to about 300 nm, and a pore length of at least about 50 nm to about 300 nm, wherein each nanochannel includes an outlet expansion regio...