US Patent Issued to Oxford Nanopore Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Nanopore arrays for sequencing nucleic acids" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,898, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Great Britain).

"Nanopore arrays for sequencing nucleic acids" was invented by Stuart William Reid (Oxford, Great Britain), Terence Alan Reid (Oxford, Great Britain), James Anthony Clarke (Oxford, Great Britain), Steven Paul White (Oxford, Great Britain) and Gurdial Singh Sanghera (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To form a layer separating two volumes of aqueous solution, there is used an apparatus comprising elements defining a chamber, the elements including a body of non-conductive material having formed therein at least one recess openi...