US Patent Issued to Oxford Nanopore Technologies on June 24 for "Logic driven polynucleotide scanning for mapping features in a nanopore device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,488, issued on June 24, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Logic driven polynucleotide scanning for mapping features in a nanopore device" was invented by William B. Dunbar (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Xu Liu (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an automated method of mapping one or more features of a target polynucleotide. Also provided in the present disclosure are automated methods for sequencing a polynucleotide sequence. Also provided in the present disclosure are methods of extended recapture of a polynucleotide in a nanopore device. Also provided...