US Patent Issued to McMaster University on July 1 for "Fluorosilinated liquid-infused surfaces with embedded biomolecules, methods of making and uses thereof" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,452, issued on July 1, was assigned to McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada).

"Fluorosilinated liquid-infused surfaces with embedded biomolecules, methods of making and uses thereof" was invented by Tohid F. Didar (Dundas, Canada), Maryam Badv (Hamilton, Canada), Zachary Cetinic (Toronto) and Amid Shakeri (Hamilton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses biofunctional surfaces that have self-assembled monolayers of fluorine groups with "built-in" functional groups promote targeted cell and biomolecule binding to the surface while reducing non-specific binding. Further, this application also relates to...