US Patent Issued to Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth Systems of Higher Education on Sept. 23 for "Biosensor tattoos and uses therefor for biomarker monitoring" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,073, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh) and University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth Systems of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Biosensor tattoos and uses therefor for biomarker monitoring" was invented by O. Burak Ozdoganlar (Sewickley, Pa.), Marcel P. Bruchez (Edgewood, Pa.), Phil G. Campbell (Pittsburgh), Jonathan W. Jarvik (Pittsburgh), Louis Falo (Wexford, Pa.) and Geza Erdos (Wexford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are devices and methods used to produce tattoo biosensors that are based on spatially controlled intracutaneous gene delivery of optical reporters dri...