US Patent Issued to Oxford Nanopore Technologies on July 8 for "Analysis of a polynucleotide via a nanopore system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,867, issued on July 8, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Analysis of a polynucleotide via a nanopore system" was invented by Stuart William Reid (Oxford, Great Britain) and Gavin Harper (Sonning, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target polynucleotide is expanded. In respect of each nucleotide in the target polynucleotide, the target polynucleotide comprises clock nucleotides and at least one signal nucleotide in a predetermined order. The clock nucleotides have a predetermined sequence common to each nucleotide in the target polynucleotide. The at least one signal nucleotide is ch...