ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,883, issued on March 24, was assigned to Cambridge Enterprise Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Nanopore functionality control" was invented by Ulrich Keyser (Cambridge, Great Britain), Nicholas Bell (Cambridge, Great Britain), Tim Liedl (Munich), Marc Ablay (Unterhaching, Germany) and Caterina Ducati (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided of controlling the functionality of a substrate containing at least one nanopore. The method includes the steps of: introducing to the substrate a solution containing a molecular construct having a body formation which defines an aperture and a tail formation...