US Patent Issued to University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees, Brandeis University on March 17 for "Photoswitchable binary nanopore capable of detecting single molecules" (Rhode Island, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,305, issued on March 17, was assigned to University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees (Kingston, R.I.) and Brandeis University (Waltham, Mass.).

"Photoswitchable binary nanopore capable of detecting single molecules" was invented by Jason R Dwyer (Providence, R.I.), James Hagan (West Warwick, R.I.), Grace G.D. Han (Belmont, Mass.) and Alejandra Gonzalez (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is the fabrication of a photo-regulated nanopore by covalently linking a photoswitch to the interior of a silicon-based membrane and related methods of translocating an analyte and distinguishing molecule types through s...