ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,771, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DIGITAL SENSING Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Electrochemical sensors and methods of use thereof" was invented by Ali Hosseini (Auckland, New Zealand) and Ashton Partridge (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor includes: a support substrate; at least one surface structure protruding from an upper surface of the support substrate, wherein the surface structure includes an electrode layer; a sensing surface on the electrode layer, wherein the sensing surface is adapted to contact a sample containing a target analyte; a binding region on the support substrate, wherein the ...