US Patent Issued to Virginia Commonwealth UniversityNCE:, University of Bristol on Oct. 28 for "System, method, computer-accessible medium and apparatus for DNA mapping" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,296, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Virginia Commonwealth UniversityNCE: (Richmond, Va.) and University of Bristol (Bristol, Great Britain).

"System, method, computer-accessible medium and apparatus for DNA mapping" was invented by Jason Reed (Midlothian, Va.), Andrey Mikheykin (Richmond, Va.), Loren Picco (Bristol, Great Britain), Oliver Payton (Bristol, Great Britain) and Freddie Russell-Pavier (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure can include, for example, an atomic force microscopy (AFM) system, including a cantilever(s), an optical pickup unit(s) (OPU(s)) inclu...