US Patent Issued to Oxford Nanopore Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Machine learning analysis of nanopore measurements" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,184, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Machine learning analysis of nanopore measurements" was invented by Timothy Lee Massingham (Oxford, Great Britain) and Joseph Edward Harvey (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A series of measurements taken from a polymer during translocation through a nanopore is analysed using a machine learning technique using a recurrent neural network (RNN). The RNN may derive posterior probability matrices each representing, in respect of different respective historical sequences of polymer units corresponding to measurements prior...