US Patent Issued to Northeastern University, University of York on June 3 for "Lipid-free anchoring of thermophilic bacteriophage G20c portal adapter into solid-state nanopores" (British, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,796, issued on June 3, was assigned to Northeastern University (Boston) and University of York (York, Great Britain).

"Lipid-free anchoring of thermophilic bacteriophage G20c portal adapter into solid-state nanopores" was invented by Meni Wanunu (Sharon, Mass.), Alfred Antson (York, Great Britain), Sandra Greive (York, Great Britain) and Benjamin Cressiot (Montlignon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hybrid nanopores, comprising a protein pore supported within a solid-state membrane, which combine the robust nature of solid-state membranes with the easily tunable and precise engineering of protein nanopores. In an embodiment, a l...