US Patent Issued to PRESENS PRECISION SENSING on May 27 for "Method, arrangement, computer program product and sensor foil for detecting microorganisms on a surface" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,545, issued on May 27, was assigned to PRESENS PRECISION SENSING GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Method, arrangement, computer program product and sensor foil for detecting microorganisms on a surface" was invented by Gregor Liebsch (Obertraubling, Germany), Achim Stangelmayer (Neuburg an der Donau, Germany) and Robert Meier (Nittendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an arrangement, for detecting microorganisms on a surface are disclosed. At least a portion of the surface is covered with a sensor foil in an airtight manner. An oxygen-permeable layer of the sensor foil is doped with an oxygen indicator dye, loaded w...