US Patent Issued to Oxford Nanopore Technologies on Feb. 3 for "Apparatus for supporting an array of layers of amphiphilic molecules and method of forming an array of layers of amphiphilic molecules" (British, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,937, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Apparatus for supporting an array of layers of amphiphilic molecules and method of forming an array of layers of amphiphilic molecules" was invented by Jason Robert Hyde (Oxford, Great Britain), James Anthony Clarke (Oxford, Great Britain) and Gaelle Anne-Leonie Andreatta (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for supporting an array of layers of amphiphilic molecules, the apparatus comprising: a body, formed in a surface of the body, an array of sensor wells capable of supporting a layer of amphiphilic molecu...