US Patent Issued to Oxford Nanopore Technologies on Feb. 4 for "Methods of characterising target polynucleotides" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,384, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Methods of characterising target polynucleotides" was invented by Richard Alexander Gutierrez (Oxford, Great Britain), Andrew John Heron (Oxford, Great Britain) and James White (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a new method of characterising a target polynucleotide using a pore. The method involves controlling the formation of secondary structure by the target polynucleotide after the polynucleotide has moved through the pore."

The patent was filed on May 25, 2017, under Application No. 16/304...