US Patent Issued to Countertrace on Sept. 23 for "Fluid analyses and sensor constructs employing hexasubstituted benzenes" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,430, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Countertrace LLC (Manvel, Texas).

"Fluid analyses and sensor constructs employing hexasubstituted benzenes" was invented by Robert E. Hanes Jr. (Missouri City, Texas), Richard L. Pettys (Pearland, Texas), David M. Headley (Pearland, Texas) and Paul T. Hoopingarner (Missouri City, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Phenyl rings provide a robust scaffold for molecular design, given the limited number of ring carbon atoms and the fixed geometry in between. Alternating groups in hexasubstituted benzenes may be directed toward opposite faces of the phenyl ring, such that orthogonal reactive grou...