Illumina's Roswell Single Molecule Sequencer

I posted this patent over on the Discord, which was then picked up by Alex Dickinson over on LinkedIn and got about 10x the views that any post I’ve ever posted has…

But hey! I might as well arrive late to my own party and post about it too!

The basic approach is similar to that described by Roswell. Roswell also proposed building bridges between electrodes (like those shown in the figure above) and to a limited degree were able to use the system for biosensing: