ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,916, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Composition for temperature sensors including graphene oxide, DNAzyme and PNA and temperature sensing method using the same" was invented by Jieon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Woo-keun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seokjoo Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a composition for temperature sensors including graphene oxide, DNAzyme and PNA, a temperature sensing method and a kit using the same. In the present invention, when the DNAzyme/PNA duplex is dissociated at a cert...