ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,595, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Oxford, Great Britain).
"Coupling method" was invented by James Anthony Clarke (Oxford, Great Britain), James White (Oxford, Great Britain), John Milton (Oxford, Great Britain) and Clive Gavin Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a new method of determining the presence, absence or characteristics of an analyte. The analyte is coupled to a membrane. The invention also relates to nucleic acid sequencing."
The patent was filed on March 28, 2025, under Application No. 19/094,566.
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