US Patent Issued on Sept. 16 for "Portable photonic sensor system as an early detection tool for ovarian cancer" (Texas, New York, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,628, issued on Sept. 16.

"Portable photonic sensor system as an early detection tool for ovarian cancer" was invented by Debra Wawro (Paradise, Texas), Shelby Zimmerman (Arlington, Texas), Yiwu Ding (Marcellus, N.Y.), Robert Magnusson (Arlington, Texas) and Peter Koulen (Leawood, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guided mode resonance (GMR) sensor that can be used to simultaneously detect an array of analytes. It provides a diagnostic system that can rapidly detect an array of biomarker proteins in patient samples (such as blood, serum or plasma for example) which can be used as an accurate means to conduct a differential analys...