US Patent Issued to Oxford Nanopore Technologies on April 14 for "Method for selecting polynucleotides based on enzyme interaction duration" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,003, issued on April 14, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Method for selecting polynucleotides based on enzyme interaction duration" was invented by Andrew John Heron (Oxford, Great Britain) and Rebecca Victoria Bowen (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for selecting polynucleotides, the method comprising: allowing a nucleic acid handling enzyme to move along multiple polynucleotides in a sample for a defined time period, wherein the enzyme is loaded onto each of the multiple polynucleotides and wherein one or more molecule of the enzyme moves along each of the mul...