US Patent Issued to Duke University on Feb. 10 for "Prothrombin time sensor" (North Carolina, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,763, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"Prothrombin time sensor" was invented by Aaron D. Franklin (Cary, N.C.), Nicholas X.D. Williams (Washington), Brittani L. Carroll (Durham, N.C.) and Steven G. Noyce (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fully-printed sensor chip for measuring prothrombin time of a blood sample. The sensor chip includes a pair of electrodes and a pair of contact pads, each electrically coupled to a different one of the electrodes, printed on the surface of the substrate using conductive ink materials. When a blood sample is placed on the sample chip in contact with both ...