ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,272, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Optical cavity surface bioconjunction using lipid membranes for label free, ultrasensitive detection of biomolecules" was invented by Phuong-Diem Nguyen (Tucson, Ariz.), Judith Su (Tucson, Ariz.), Adley Gin (Tucson, Ariz.) and Erol Ozgur (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system includes an optical resonant cavity, an optical source, an optical detector, and a signal processing circuit. The optical source is arranged to provide a source beam of light to be at least partially coupled into the ...