ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,375, issued on March 25, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Oxford, Great Britain).
"Mutant lysenin pores" was invented by Mark John Bruce (Oxford, Great Britain), James Anthony Clarke (Oxford, Great Britain), Andrew John Heron (Oxford, Great Britain), Lakmal Nishantha Jayasinghe (Oxford, Great Britain) and Elizabeth Jayne Wallace (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 lysenin."
The patent was filed on Nov. 8, 2023, under Application No. 18/504,590.
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