ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,134, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland).
"Apparatus and method for measuring hormone concentration in biofluids" was invented by Mihai Adrian Ionescu (Ecublens, Switzerland) and Sheibani Shokoofeh (St-Sulpice, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the present invention concerns a biosensor for sensing stress hormone cortisol concentration in a biofluid. The biosensor comprises: an electrical transistor transducer comprising a transistor gate electrode; a sensing electrode element comprising a metal element having a biofluid facing surface,...