US Patent Issued to Oxford Nanopore Technologies on July 8 for "Formation of array of membranes and apparatus therefor" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,637, issued on July 8, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Great Britain).

"Formation of array of membranes and apparatus therefor" was invented by Jason Robert Hyde (Oxford, Great Britain), Pedro Miguel Ortiz Bahamon (Oxford, Great Britain), Clive Gavin Brown (Oxford, Great Britain), Andrew John Heron (Oxford, Great Britain) and Paul Raymond Mackett (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An array of membranes comprising amphipathic molecules is formed using an apparatus comprising a support defining an array of compartments. Volumes comprising polar medium are provided within respective compartments and a...