US Patent Issued to MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN on Feb. 3 for "System for continuous measurement of osmolarity and sensor as well as its use" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,890, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V. (Munich).

"System for continuous measurement of osmolarity and sensor as well as its use" was invented by Yannik Dreher (Heidelberg, Germany) and Kerstin Goepfrich (Vaihingen/Enz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first aspect the present invention relates to a system for continuous measurement of osmolarity in situ. Said system comprises phase-separated membrane enclosed compartment as the sensor in osmolarity; detection means: a processing unit, and, optionally, an output unit of absolute or relative osmolarity and/or osmo...