ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,946, issued on March 11, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Oxford, Great Britain).
"Biochemical analysis instrument" was invented by Clive Gavin Brown (Oxford, Great Britain) and James Peter Willcocks (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analysis instrument comprises plural modules connected together over a data network, each module comprising an analysis apparatus operable to perform biochemical analysis of a sample. Each module comprises a control unit that controls the operation of the analysis apparatus. The control units are addressable to select an arbitrary number of modules to operate as a...