ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,587, issued on April 15, was assigned to Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark).

"Method for preparing a substrate by applying a sample to be analysed" was invented by Onur Durucan (Dyssegaard, Denmark), Michael Stenbaek Schmidt (Copenhagen SV, Denmark), Tomas Rindzevicius (Malmoe, Sweden) and Anja Boisen (Birkeroed, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for preparing a substrate comprising a sample reception area and a sensing area. The method comprises the steps of: 1) applying a sample on the sample reception area; 2) rotating the substrate around a predetermined axis; 3) during rota...