US Patent Issued to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION on Aug. 4 for "Assembly comprising a nucleic acid scaffold, systems, methods, and uses therefore" (British, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,528, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Assembly comprising a nucleic acid scaffold, systems, methods, and uses therefore" was invented by Hagan Bayley (Oxford, Great Britain), Evan Spruijt (Nijmegen, Netherlands) and Anja Henning-Knechtel (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides an assembly comprising a nucleic acid scaffold and a plurality of appendages bonded to the scaffold, wherein the appendages, when bonded to the scaffold, are capable of interacting to form a pore in a layer of amphipathic molecules."

The patent was filed on July 30...