US Patent Issued to Oxford Nanopore Technologies, VIB VZW, Vrije Universiteit Brussel on July 14 for "Transmembrane pore consisting of two CsgG pores" (British, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,872, issued on July 14, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Oxford, Great Britain), VIB VZW (Ghent, Belgium) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels).

"Transmembrane pore consisting of two CsgG pores" was invented by Lakmal Nishantha Jayasinghe (Oxford, Great Britain), Elizabeth Jayne Wallace (Oxford, Great Britain), Pratik Raj Singh (Oxford, Great Britain), Richard George Hambley (Oxford, Great Britain), Michael Robert Jordan (Oxford, Great Britain) and Han Remaut (Roosbeek, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of characterising a polynucleotide using a transmembrane pore, wherein the pore is a ...