US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Sept. 23 for "Devices and methods including a preconcentrator material for detection of analytes" (South Korean, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,394, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Devices and methods including a preconcentrator material for detection of analytes" was invented by Timothy Manning Swager (Newton, Mass.), Jisun Im (Busan, South Korea), Alexander Robertson Petty (Watertown, Mass.), Jan Markus Schnorr (Cambridge, Mass.) and Cindy Schmadicke (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide devices and methods for the determination of analytes. The device typically includes an absorbent material that allows for an analyte sample to be concentrated and analyzed simul...