ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,956, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Analysis of a polymer" was invented by Stuart William Reid (Oxford, Great Britain), Gavin Harper (Oxford, Great Britain), Clive Gavin Brown (Oxford, Great Britain), Daniel John Turner (Oxford, Great Britain), Andrew John Heron (Oxford, Great Britain) and Christopher James Wright (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biochemical analysis system analyses polymers by taking measurements of a polymer from a sensor element comprising a nanopore during translocation of the polymer through the nanopore. When a polymer has par...