ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,148, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Life Technologies Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Surface treatment of semiconductor sensors" was invented by Ronald L. Cicero (Menlo Park, Calif.), James A. Ball (Ledyard, Conn.), Alexander Mastroianni (Alameda, Calif.), Christina E. Inman (San Mateo, Calif.), Jeremy Gray (Larkspur, Calif.), Marc Glazer (San Jose, Calif.), Yufang Wang (San Carlos, Calif.), Joseph Koscinski (Richmond, Calif.) and Phil Waggoner (Guilford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor component includes a sensor including a sensor surface and a reaction site in cooperation with the sensor and exposing the sensor surfa...