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The patent family
Seven years from a 2012 priority date to a 2019 grant, and almost no other public footprint.
Intellectual property
One family, filed over seven years
The company’s public footprint is mostly a patent family rather than a website. A first application with a 2012 priority date ran through publications in 2013, 2015 and 2017 before granting in 2019.
The inventor named on the family is Gordon Holt; earlier patents of his were assigned to Intel.
The granted patent
- NumberUS 10,422,000 B2
- TitleApparatus and method for molecular separation, purification, and sensing
- AssigneeLux Bio Group, Inc.
- InventorGordon Holt
- Priority2 April 2012
- Granted24 September 2019
Timeline
From priority to grant
- 2012 Priority The application is first filed, with a 2 April 2012 priority date.
- 2013 Publication US 2013/0294711 A1 publishes.
- 2015 Continuation US 2015/0067602 A1 publishes as the family continues.
- 2017 Further publication US 2017/0298432 A1 publishes.
- 2019 Grant US 10,422,000 B2 is granted on 24 September 2019.
What the claim says, in plain terms
A channel in a support material. One or more electrodes on the channel’s sidewall. A nanomembrane inside the channel, encircling a pore, with a hydrophobic surface, touching an electrode. A lipid bilayer on that surface, spanning the pore, with a protein nanopore inserted into it — and the pore sized so the bilayer takes exactly one.
That paragraph is a paraphrase of the abstract for readability. The patent itself is the authority.
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