US Patent Issued to GRAPHENE-DX on July 29 for "Point-of-collection graphene-based toxicology sensor" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,541, issued on July 29, was assigned to GRAPHENE-DX INC. (Boston).

"Point-of-collection graphene-based toxicology sensor" was invented by Namal Nawana (Weston, Mass.), Mehdi Abedi (Brighton, Mass.) and Reza Mollaaghababa (Natick, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a sensor for detecting a drug of abuse (DOA) in a sample is disclosed. In some embodiments, the sensor includes a graphene layer, a plurality of binding agents, which bind to the DOA, coupled to said graphene layer to generate a functionalized graphene layer, and a plurality of electrical conductors electrically coupled to said functionalized graphene layer...