ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,240, issued on July 15, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and Northwestern University.
"Membrane protease-based methods for detection of bacteria" was invented by Bo Liedberg (Singapore), Palaniappan Alagappan (Singapore), Sushanth Gudlur (Singapore), Gaurav Sinsinbar (Singapore), Gopal Ammanath (Singapore), Milan Mrksich (Evanston, Ill.) and Sarah Elizabeth Wood (Evanston, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method for detecting bacteria. The method utilises a peptide that forms a complex with a conjugated reporter polymer and is susceptible to cleavage by one or more proteases on ...