US Patent Issued to Oxford Nanopore Technologies on April 1 for "Analysis of nanopore signal using a machine-learning technique" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,360, issued on April 1, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Analysis of nanopore signal using a machine-learning technique" was invented by Timothy Lee Massingham (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for estimating a polymer sequence of a polymer based on a signal produced as a result of translocation of the polymer through a nanopore are described. The techniques may analyze portions of the signal to estimate whether there was a transition in the polymer sequence during each respective portion and which units of the sequence the transition was between. The techniques...