US Patent Issued to UCL Business on July 1 for "Membrane bound nucleic acid nanopores" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,891, issued on July 1, was assigned to UCL Business Ltd (London).

"Membrane bound nucleic acid nanopores" was invented by Stefan Howorka (London) and Yongzheng Xing (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A membrane-spanning nanopore is provided, the nanopore comprising: a. one or more polynucleotide strands that provide a scaffold component; and b. a plurality of polynucleotide strands that provide a plurality of staple components; wherein each of the plurality of staple components hybridise to the scaffold component; wherein the orientation of a major portion of at least one polynucleotide strand comprised within the scaffold compone...