US Patent Issued to ALIGNEDBIO on Feb. 10 for "Optical molecular nanowire sensor and method" (Swedish, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,717, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ALIGNEDBIO AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Optical molecular nanowire sensor and method" was invented by Nicklas Anttu (Turku, Finland) and Erik Smith (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analyte detection system includes a substrate, a nanowire positioned on the substrate, the nanowire configured to bind with an analyte and a fluorophore, an excitation radiation source configured to irradiate the nanowire with excitation radiation, and a radiation detection device configured to collect radiation emitted by the fluorophore and output from the free end of the nanowire. The substrate may be a refl...