ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,863, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ACADEMIA SINICA (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Detection method and detection system using local surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) spectral image brightness contrast" was invented by Pei-Kuen Wei (Taipei, Taiwan), Sheng-Hann Wang (Chaozhou Township, Pingtung County, Taiwan) and Ting-Wei Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection method and a detection system for detecting objects of interest attached to a surface of a plurality of reporters, wherein the plurality of reporters are flowing in a microfluidic chip and illuminated by a light source. The detection method has following st...