MUMBAI, India, April 20 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202514093647 A) filed by Robert Bosch Gmbh; and The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, Stuttgart, Germany, on Sept. 29, 2025, for 'systems and methods for trapping and stretching polynucleotide strands.'
Inventor(s) include Santiago, Juan G.; Ma, Kunlin; Paul, Soumyadeep; Darvish, Armin; and Lang, Christoph.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Systems and methods for trapping a polynucleotide strand at a surface of a channel. Methods may include providing a polymer to the surface of the channel and physically interacting the polymer with the surface of the channel. Methods may also include providing a sample including the polynucleotide strand to the polymer interacting with the surface of the channel and applying an electric field to the polynucleotide strand to promote a physical interaction between the 10 polynucleotide strand and the polymer to trap the polynucleotide strand at the surface of the channel."
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