US Patent Issued to Qitan Technology, Beijing on Dec. 30 for "Mnep monomer variant and application thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,491, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Qitan Technology LTD., Beijing (Beijing).

"Mnep monomer variant and application thereof" was invented by Shaowei Liu (Beijing), Ya Zhou (Beijing) and Chengyao Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a Mnep monomer variant including an amino acid sequence with any one or more amino acid mutations at positions 92-104 of SEQ ID NO: 1, a porin or construct including at least one Mnep monomer variant, and a use thereof. The present invention also provides a method for characterizing a target polynucleotide."

The patent was filed on Sept. 30, 2019, under Applicati...