US Patent Issued to University of Washington on July 21 for "Analyte sequencing with nanopores" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,517, issued on July 21, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Analyte sequencing with nanopores" was invented by Jens H. Gundlach (Seattle), Ian M. Derrington (Seattle) and Marcus D. Collins (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods and systems pertaining to sequencing units of analytes using nanopores. In general, arresting constructs are used to modify an analyte such that the modified analyte pauses in the opening of a nanopore. During such a pause, an ion current level is obtained that corresponds to a unit of the analyte. After altering the modified analyte such that the modified ...