ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,458, issued on July 29, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Oxford, Great Britain).
"Mutant pore" was invented by Lakmal Nishantha Jayasinghe (Oxford, Great Britain), Mark John Bruce (Oxford, Great Britain), Luke McNeill (Oxford, Great Britain), Ramiz Iqbal Nathani (Oxford, Great Britain), Pratik Raj Singh (Oxford, Great Britain), Neil Roger Wood (Oxford, Great Britain) and Stephen Robert Young (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to mutant forms of lysenin. The invention also relates to analyte characterisation using the mutant forms of lysenin."
The patent was filed on Feb. 13, ...