ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,491, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Method" was invented by Andrew John Heron (Oxford, Great Britain), Mark John Bruce (Oxford, Great Britain), Rebecca Victoria Bowen (Oxford, Great Britain), Luke Alexander McNeill (Oxford, Great Britain), Simon Rafael Villarreal (Oxford, Great Britain), Samuel John Martin (Oxford, Great Britain) and Rebecca Anne Stafford-Allen (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a method of loading a motor protein onto a polynucleotide adapter. Also provided are polynucleotide adapters and kits comprising such adapter...