US Patent Issued to Oxford Nanopore Technologies on July 21 for "Mutant pores" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,886, issued on July 21, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Mutant pores" was invented by Lakmal Nishantha Jayasinghe (Oxford, Great Britain) and Elizabeth Jayne Wallace (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to mutant forms of CsgG. The invention also relates to analyte detection and characterisation using CsgG."

The patent was filed on Jan. 8, 2025, under Application No. 19/013,448.

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