US Patent Issued to ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA' DI BOLOGNA on Oct. 7 for "Luminescent sensor for nano/microplastics" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,077, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA' DI BOLOGNA (Bologna, Italy).

"Luminescent sensor for nano/microplastics" was invented by Damiano Genovese (Bologna, Italy), Luca Prodi (Bologna, Italy), Enrico Rampazzo (Bologna, Italy) and Nelsi Zaccheroni (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting nano- and micro-plastics in an aqueous sample suspected of being polluted with nano- or micro-plastics is provided. The method is based on interaction of the nano- and micro-plastics with hyaluronic acid functionalized with a luminescent or fluorescent dye. The luminescent or fluorescent dye ...