US Patent Issued to Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Portal Biotech on March 31 for "Nanopore-based analysis of analytes" (Dutch, British, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,945, issued on March 31, was assigned to Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Groningen, Netherlands) and Portal Biotech Ltd. (Guildford, Great Britain).

"Nanopore-based analysis of analytes" was invented by Giovanni Maglia (Glimmen, Netherlands), Shengli Zhang (Shanghai) and Andrew Heron (Maidenhead, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for analysis of proteins, more in particular to nanopore systems, devices and methods for single-molecule protein analysis and sequencing. Provided is a method for translocating a target protein through a nanopore, the nanopore being comprised in...