US Patent Issued to Oxford Nanopore Technologies on March 24 for "Method of nanopore sequencing of concatenated nucleic acids" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,170, issued on March 24, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Method of nanopore sequencing of concatenated nucleic acids" was invented by Andrew John Heron (Oxford, Great Britain), Daniel Ryan Garalde (Oxford, Great Britain) and James White (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a new method of characterising two or more target polynucleotides using a pore. The method involves sequentially attaching to a first polynucleotide one or more subsequent polynucleotides to form a concatenated polynucleotide."

The patent was filed on July 19, 2021, under Applica...