ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,676, issued on July 1, was assigned to Imec VZW (Leuven, Belgium).
"Field-effect transistor-based biosensor" was invented by Koen Martens (Ghent, Belgium), Karolien Jans (Tessenderlo, Belgium), Pol Van Dorpe (Spalbeek, Belgium) and Gabrielle Woronoff (Brussels).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor is provided. The sensor includes a field effect transistor comprising: an active region comprising a source region, a drain region, and a channel region between the source region and the drain region; a dielectric region on the channel region; an enzyme coupled to the dielectric region, the enzyme having an active site for interacting with...