US Patent Issued to Oxford Nanopore Technologies on Feb. 4 for "Method and system of estimating a sequence of polymer units" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,110, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Method and system of estimating a sequence of polymer units" was invented by Stuart William Reid (Oxford, Great Britain), Gavin Harper (Sonning, Great Britain), Clive Gavin Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain), James Anthony Clarke (Kidlington, Great Britain) and Andrew John Heron (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sequence of polymer units in a polymer (3), eg. DNA, is estimated from at least one series of measurements related to the polymer, eg. ion current as a function of translocation through a nanopore (1), wherein ...