ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,330, issued on March 25, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Charge-sensitive optical detection of binding kinetics between phage displayed peptide ligands and protein targets" was invented by Shaopeng Wang (Chandler, Ariz.) and Runli Liang (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems for the label-free detection of target molecules in samples. The systems include a sensor probe positioned in a sensing region and configured to bind to receptors for the target molecules. The systems also include electrodes configured to expose the sensor probe...