ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,292, issued on April 29, was assigned to National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan).
"Method for detecting analyte" was invented by Jiunn-Der Liao (Tainan, Taiwan), Han Lee (Tainan, Taiwan) and Kuan-Hung Liu (Tainan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting an analyte comprises the following steps: providing a SERS-active substrate and a Raman spectra database; applying a sample onto the SERS-active substrate; applying an incident light by a Raman spectrometer onto the SERS-active substrate to generate a Raman spectrum of the sample; and comparing the Raman spectrum of the sample with a Raman spectra database ...