ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,481, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc (Oxford, Great Britain).
"Target detection with nanopore" was invented by Trevor J. Morin (Santa Cruz, Calif.), William B. Dunbar (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Daniel Alexander Heller (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods and compositions for detecting a target molecule or particle suspected to be present in a sample using a polymer scaffold, a fusion molecule, and a pore."
The patent was filed on March 26, 2020, under Application No. 16/831,678.
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