US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on Nov. 4 for "Hydrophobic copper thin film for surface plasmon resonance-based sensor" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,037, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Hydrophobic copper thin film for surface plasmon resonance-based sensor" was invented by Mohammad Kamal Hossain (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface plasmon resonance sensor system includes a sensor plate having a quartz glass substrate and a copper film sputtered onto the substrate and annealed for about two hours. A quartz prism is attached to a surface of the sensor plate, and a microfluidics unit containing carrier fluid is attached to the opposite surface. A target analyte reservoir is connect...