US Patent Issued to B. G. NEGEV TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS, AT BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY on Feb. 10 for "Device and methods for detecting pathogens" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,738, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to B. G. NEGEV TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS LTD., AT BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY (Beer Sheva, Israel).

"Device and methods for detecting pathogens" was invented by Raz Jelinek (Reut, Israel) and Nitzan Shauloff (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a sensing device including a plurality of capacitive sensors, each capacitive sensor comprises a sensing element electrically connected to electrodes and comprising carbon dots; the plurality of capacitive sensors comprises at least a first sensor, a second sensor and a third sensor; the carbon dots of the fi...